Network Solutions has disclosed that almost 600,00 consumers have had their credit card information stolen from merchant sites hosted by the company.
According to the company’s web site, “In the ordinary course of business, Network Solutions identified unauthorized code on servers supporting some of its ecommerce merchants’ websites.”
Network Solutions reports that 4,343 different web merchants were [...]
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canada.com contains onerous provisions in its Terms and Conditions that should cause all persons to avoid submitting any thing to canada.com directly or indirectly.
Specifically canada.com forces users to surrender any rights whatever over any material they submit, while concurrently and simultaneously forcing users to accept legal liability for [...]
Windows Live won’t let records die
A fundamental principal of privacy law and practice is that those who possess personally identifiable information are required to destroy that personal information after the purpose for which the person supplied the information is no longer operative.
Companies are not allowed to simply amass information about citizens and then hold on [...]
In our recent review of the Hushmail Privacy Policy we have to report it is lacking in full and frank disclosure and does not alert users to potential risks users face in using a Hushmail account.
In 2007 Hushmail, headquartered in Canada, turned over private emails to U.S. law enforcement under the “Mutual Assistance” pact the [...]
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by Glenn Caleval
The terms of use for Walmart.com include a compulsory surrender of user rights that is among the broadest and most offensive of user rights we have seen.
The relevant section is quoted below or you may read Walmart’s entire Terms of Use here. Here is the short [...]