More and more of Baihe’s 90 million clients are displaying their credit scores in their dating profiles, doing away with the idea that a credit score is a private matter
Source : China ‘social credit’: Beijing sets up huge system – BBC News
Étiquette : privacy (Page 39 of 46)
“The publication of the Claimant’s birth year in the online lexicon Wikipedia does not infringe upon her general right of personality or data protection law,” said the Amtsgericht München, a local court in Munich. It added that the Claimant is a “renowned producer of documentaries” who has published a documentary almost annually since 1987.
Tout est parti en juillet 2014, avec la plainte d’une personne qui « dénonçait la communication par téléphone de son mot de passe par la société ». Celle-ci craignait alors que ses données confidentielles soient stockées en clair dans la base de données de ce spécialiste. Moins de deux semaines plus tard, la CNIL procède à un contrôle de la société.
Source : La CNIL inflige 50 000 euros de sanction à l’encontre d’Optical Center – Next INpact
We need to have some kind of a big data capability of determining what’s happening to our network out there, because it’s not just people getting on the network, it’s people doing things to the network.
Tom Wheeler, Federal Communications Commission Chairman
Source : Congressman: To stop ISIS, let’s shut down websites and social media | Ars Technica
Millions of mobile devices with SilverPush powered SDK are constantly listening to SilverPush patented audio beacons (ultrasonic) which are watermarked in Televison ad commercial. A pair is made once a SDK comes in proximity of audio beacon. The individual ID is mapped back to its audience genome and a brand-consumer journey has been started.
SilverPush’s company policy is to not « divulge the names of the apps the technology is embedded, » meaning that users have no knowledge of which apps are using this technology and no way to opt-out of this practice. As of April of 2015, SilverPush’s software is used by 67 apps and the company monitors 18 million smartphones.
SilverPush’s ultrasonic cross-device tracking was publicly reported as long ago as July 2014. More recently, the company received a new round of publicity when it obtained $1.25 million in venture capital. The CDT letter appears to be the first time the privacy-invading potential of the company’s product has been discussed in detail. SilverPush officials didn’t respond to e-mail seeking comment for this article.
Source : Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC | Ars Technica
The majority of smartphone owners taking part in an 11-nation survey said they’d rather have their nude pics publicly exposed than their financial information.
Source : Smartphone owners value banking data over their nude pics, survey says | Ars Technica
Aux Etats-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, divers responsables politiques conservateurs invoquent les attentats du 13 novembre pour réclamer un renforcement des lois autorisant la surveillance des réseaux de communication électronique.
Source : Après les attentats du 13 novembre, Jeb Bush demande le rétablissement des pouvoirs de la NSA
A Belgian court yesterday gave Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking Internet users who do not have a Facebook account. If the US company refuses to comply, it faces fines of up to €250,000 (£177,000 or ~$267,500) per day.
Source : Facebook must stop tracking Belgian users in two days or be fined ~$267K daily | Ars Technica
Android apps are more likely than iOS apps to share with a third party personally identifying information such as name (73% of Android apps vs. 16% of iOS apps) and email address (73% vs. 16%). For location data, including geo-coordinates, more iOS apps (47%) than Android apps (33%) share that data with a third party.