by Glenn Caleval
No not the kind of crock that contains cookies. The kind that tells you you’re being fed a crock… The intensive campaigning against computer cookies is, for the most part, hype and fear-mongering.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that reside on your own computer. They contain basic information that makes web sites [...]
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CrystalTech Web Hosting Inc fails the most basic criteria for a responsible Privacy Policy, so much so that the Secure Surfing Organization advises individuals and businesses to exclude this company from any consideration. Stay away from this company unless and until it publishes a Privacy Policy that actually [...]
If you want an outstanding narrative on the challenges facing personal privacy, click on this link, Digital Dossier, a video that might make you think.
Consider that, for the sake of time and narration, the author is using a trivial number of examples to convey the ideas, but that the sources of data generated [...]
Our Monitor has written Canada Safeway the inquiry that follows. We will post any response we receive as well as any privacy policy they may wish to disclose.
The privacy policy posted on your web site applies only to activity on safeway.ca.
Do you have a corporate privacy policy that would cover the more important (to consumers) [...]
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Most people are familiar with the original form of extortion marketing on the internet. The scam was to register someone’s domain name and then try to sell it to the owner of the trademark or brand for a profit. That practice has largely ended with the application of [...]
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Facebook is the opposite of anonymous browsing or secure surfing.
Several of our readers have sent email questioning why the Secure Surfing Organization has not published on the moves Facebook is making in its collection, distribution, use and administration of Facebook member personal information.
Frankly there has been so much [...]
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by Glenn Caleval
Facebook has taken a major swing at privacy concerns and hit a home run for user rights according to the Secure Surfing Organization.
Instead of offering the litany of excuses and confusion that is the standard fare of the old boys of the internet, Facebook has [...]
PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-008
Report of Findings into the Complaint Filed by the
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
against Facebook Inc.
Under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
by Elizabeth Denham, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Complaint
3. Introduction
4. Section 1 – Collection of Date and Birth
5. Section 2 – Default Privacy [...]Others in this Group An Introduction – Legal Library – July 20, 2009Access to Information Act – Canada – July 20, 2009CANSPAM Act of 2003 – July 26, 2009Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – August 2, 2009Copyright Act of Canada – July 20, 2009Data Protection Act – UK – August 3, 2009Defamation – Libel – Criminal Code of Canada – July 20, 2009False …Read the rest – Findings Against Facebook – Privacy Law Breaches
FreeCreditReport.com is owned by Experian, the credit reporting bureau through its ConsumerInfo.com properties.
Our review of the ConsumerInfo.com Privacy Notice resulted in the following ratings: CYA, Good Disclosure, Avoid.
The Avoid rating represents a fail. In their policy, this Experian company asserts:
“We may disclose information about you to affiliated and non-affiliated third parties.”
Recently we have received numerous communications challenging the warning in our Privacy & Identity Overview (among other places) that Google scans and indexes private email sent from or to any GMail email address.
The claim is not an idle paranoia, but merely a reporting of Google’s own public statements.
"Like most email services, Gmail uses software to [...]
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