Internet. News. Advertising. EU. Icons. Messages. Website. Experts. Accountability. E-Discovery Reference Model. Facebook policy chief admits site needs to improve deletion tools for a minority of users. Can you really be traced from your IP address? Posted on 28 Mar 2011 at 10:40 Davey Winder investigates if rights holder and the police can reliably trace suspects via their IP addresses Identifying individuals using nothing more than their IP address has become a key part of anti-piracy and criminal investigations.
But just how reliable is such IP address evidence? British courts have recently begun to cast doubt over its validity. The use of IP addresses to tie individuals to illegal downloads was a tactic employed by ACS Law, which sent letters demanding up to £500 compensation on behalf of copyright holders whose intellectual property was said to have been stolen. At a hearing where 27 of these cases came to court, Judge Birss QC suggested that ACS Law had "materially overstated the untested merits" of using IP addresses in this way, and questioned if the process of simply identifying an IP address could establish a copyright infringement by anyone related to it. Gowalla Steadily Moves Past The Check-In With City Pages, Business Listings And More.
It’s no secret that both Foursquare and Gowalla are expanding their location-based social networks past the check-in, developing other incentives for consumers to use the services.
Gowalla, in particular, has focused on adding innovative features to its platform to make the social network more interactive, through photos and comments. Most recently, the startup added local highlights, which allows users to essentially tap into their social graph to not only see what’s popular in a particular location, but also provide contextual information around what are the best sights, places, restaurants and activities in a particular locale. Today, Gowalla is adding a few more features for businesses that help the network move beyond the check-in, including City Pages, Verified Businesses and Venues; and the Stamp Calendar. Tracking Protection Lists: A privacy enhancing technology that complements Do Not Track. Yesterday, Microsoft released version 9 of Internet Explorer, which includes two significant new privacy features: Tracking Protection Lists (TPLs) and a Do Not Track (DNT) header that allows users to request that websites not track them.
We've written about the virtues of the Do Not Track header previously. In this post we'll look more closely at privacy blocklists, a category of technologies that includes the popular AdBlock Plus browser extension and the new IE9 Tracking Protection Lists. These lists are an important type of privacy technology, with distinct advantages over other approaches. They also have a number of inherent limitations, which makes them natural complements, rather than alternatives, to DNT. Free Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Companies Over Paid Search Directories. 12 min ago | ChinaTechNews.com Alibaba Throws Money At Internet Privacy Hu Xiaoming, Alibaba's vice president for small- and micro-financial group and chief risk officer, announced in Beijing that the company will invest CNY40 million to establish a security fund.
FTC Seeks Comment on Strengthening the Caller ID Provisions of its Telemark. Home > Consumer Privacy > FTC Seeks Comment on Strengthening the Caller ID Provisions of its Telemarketing Sales Rule On December 7, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comment on how to address telemarketing practices designed to circumvent existing Caller ID rules, and how to make Caller ID a more useful tool for screening unwanted calls.
The FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) currently requires telemarketers to provide consumers who use Caller ID services with either the telemarketer’s telephone number or the number of the seller or charitable organization represented by the telemarketer. These rules are designed to encourage accountability and enable the FTC and law enforcement agencies to identify improper telemarketing practices (e.g., calling numbers from the Do Not Call registry).
Experimental Real-Time Location Tracking Comes To Google Latitude On Android. Google has just released a series of updates for their Google Maps Android application.
Two of these updates are useful: Place page reviews and the ability to filter search results. But one of them is really interesting: real-time location updating in Google Latitude. To be clear, this feature is an experimental one that Google is trying out. But if you enable it, your friends on the service will be able to see where you are in real-time (and vice versa, if they enable it too).
Google "Street View" : la CNIL prononce une amende de 100 000 euros - CNIL - Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés. Vous réservez un billet d'avion pour New-York sur Internet.
Plus tard, en lisant votre quotidien en ligne, une publicité vous propose une offre intéressante pour une location de voitures à New York. Ce n'est pas une simple coïncidence : il s'agit de la publicité ciblée, qui se développe actuellement de plus en plus sur Internet. La publicité ciblée ou comportementale Votre adresse IP, les mots clés que vous avez saisis pour trouver le site de réservation, les sites que vous avez visités, votre destination, toutes ces informations ont été analysées pour déterminer quelle publicité pourrait vous intéresser. La technologie la plus répandue pour suivre le comportement des internautes est basée sur des "cookies traceurs" qui sont déposés sur l'ordinateur de l'internaute et constituent une sorte d'étiquette qui permet de le reconnaître dans le temps. Would Monetizing Our Personal Data Ease Privacy Concerns? - Kashmir Hill - The Not-So Private Parts.
EU privacy rules changing US companies. NEW YORK - EU data privacy rules are shaping a change of attitude in American companies when dealing with information collected from their customers, but the US is still far from considering data protection as a basic human right.
The US doesn't see data privacy as a human rights issue (Photo: Valentina Pop) Whoever bought a book online or opened an email account with Google has already experienced it: tailor-made advertising landing in their inbox, based on a personal profile created by the company. The term "behavioural advertising" is a commonplace in marketing strategies, particularly in US-based companies such as Yahoo, Amazon or Facebook.