Written by Jake Romero, CIPP If you are one of the approximately 1.3 billion people who use Facebook, you’ve likely experienced the phenomenon where a single event (like Luiz Suarez biting that Italian guy or pretty much anything involving TSA) manages to raise the ire of a large number of your Facebook friends, causing them… Continue Reading
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Privacy Monday - May 19, 2014 - Lessons Learned from Facebook
Posted in Privacy MondayPromises to Keep: Lessons Learned from Facebook’s Recent Acquisitions of WhatsApp and Moves Written by Jake Romero, CIPP/US Mergers are never simple, but the acquisition of consumer products and technology requires the purchasing entity to consider a number of questions and issues beyond the standard concerns related to executive pay, corporate valuations and per share… Continue Reading
Time to Change that Facebook Password
Posted in Data BreachIf you haven’t been paying attention to “password hygiene” preached by this blog and others, perhaps it’s time. Jose Pagliery from CNNMoney reports of a large-scale hack that has compromised over 2 million passwords at Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo and others. Here is the partial list - 318,000 Facebook accounts 70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts… Continue Reading
Privacy Monday - September 16, 2013
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, HIPAA/HITECH, Privacy MondayDis-Like! Senator Markey Urges the FTC to Investigate Facebook’s New Policies Written By Adam Veness As we previously reported here, Facebook has proposed a number of revisions to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. In response to these proposed changes, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) sent a letter to the Federal… Continue Reading
Your Face is for Sale! The 4 Most Interesting Things About the Proposed Update to Facebook’s Governing Documents
Posted in Class Action Litigation, Privacy LitigationWritten by Jake Romero If you use Facebook (and you likely do, if only to play some game that apparently involves crushing large amounts of candy), then you received an email last week informing you that Facebook is proposing changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The proposed changes are… Continue Reading
Welcome to Privacy Monday
Posted in Data Breach, Data Breach Notification, Legislation, UncategorizedWelcome to a new feature of Privacy & Security Matters - Privacy Monday. We will start your week with a fresh collection of privacy tidbits, goofs and gaffes. Tip: Make Sure Your Employee Files are Distinguishable from Customer Merchandise A Cambridge, Massachusetts Banana Republic customer got a lot more than she ordered. When she opened… Continue Reading
Second of a series: Privacy and Security Issues for 2013
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Employee Privacy, Privacy RegulationOur series over the next 10 days will highlight the top issues, as we see them, in privacy and security for 2013. Yesterday, we looked at the increase in cybersecurity disclosure by public companies, triggered by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Cybersecurity Guidance. Privacy 2013 - What to Expect in the Employment Arena Written… Continue Reading
Happy 2013 to Our Readers!
Posted in UncategorizedA Privacy New Year’s Resolution, perhaps?
Online and Off-Limits: New California Legislation Prohibits Employers from Requiring Access to Social Media Accounts of Employees
Posted in Employee Privacy, Privacy Regulation, SecurityWritten by Jake Romero Facebook announced last week that it now has upwards of 1 billion active users. That same week, over 10 million Twitter messages were sent during the U.S. presidential debate . With the number and use of social media websites rapidly expanding, your privacy rights with respect to your tweets, “likes” and… Continue Reading
Overheard in the interview room: What is your Facebook password?
Posted in Employee Privacy, Privacy RegulationIf you’ve missed this development of late, the word on the street is that prospective employers are not just using Google to search for whatever may be available on the Internet — they are asking applicants to provide their Facebook passwords to allow the prospective employer to peruse their Facebook page. Our colleagues over at… Continue Reading
Longer may not always be better: Congressmen question Facebook’s prolix privacy policy
Posted in Privacy RegulationFollowing on the heels of Facebook’s landmark settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, a bipartisan group of members of the House of Representatives has apparently read the “new and improved” Facebook privacy policy and were not impressed. Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Ed Markey (D-MA), Joe Barton (R-TX), and Diana DeGette (D-CO), sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark… Continue Reading
FTC: Facebook “Deceived” Consumers by Failing to Keep Privacy Promises
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Legislation“Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users” - Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the long-rumored proposed consent decree with Facebook, settling allegations in a complaint that Facebook violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by failing to live… Continue Reading
Breaking News — Wall Street Journal: Facebook Close to Settlement with the Federal Trade Commission
Posted in Privacy Regulation, UncategorizedUpdate: Post from Daily Online Examiner blog. If you’re a power Facebook user, you are likely tired of the constant changes to privacy settings. At last count, the most recent change was the 13th. This report may make your day. The Wall Street Journal reports this afternoon (registration required) that Facebook is finalizing a proposed settlement… Continue Reading
No Violation of Electronic Communications Privacy Act by Facebook
Posted in UncategorizedWritten by Stu Eaton The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has dismissed the claims of the plaintiffs against Facebook in the case of In re: Facebook Privacy Litigation. Plaintiffs’ claims were based on Facebook’s admitted disclosure of their personal information to is advertisers in its “Referrer Headers,” which are created when… Continue Reading
Facebook Holding Privacy Summit
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityAs a follow-on to yesterday’s posts regarding the public face of the Facebook privacy brouhaha, at this hour Facebook is holding an “all-hands” meeting to discuss the company’s overall privacy strategy. PC World suggests that perhaps today’s company meeting is the beginning of Facebook’s effort to improve user guidance on issues of sharing and privacy,… Continue Reading
The back-and-forth on Facebook’s privacy travails
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityWhether the terse discussions in the public arena over Facebook’s privacy “changes” demonstrate that the world’s largest social network is playing fast and loose with the truth about its internal controls on user privacy, or whether it is just an example of poor corporate communication of policies to end users is still a matter of… Continue Reading
National Public Radio 3-part special series on privacy
Posted in Data Breach, Data Compliance & SecurityThese are from October, but if you missed them, they are worth a look (or downloading the podcasts) - Part 1: Online Data Present a Privacy Minefield Part 2: Is Your Facebook Profile as Private as You Think? Part 3: Digital Bread Crumbs: Following Your Cell Phone Trail
Privacy and Security Bits and Bytes
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityThe Most Wonderful Time of the Year — It’s time for the annual “top ten” lists. Information Security Resources has posted an article that is eye-opening reading with respect to data breaches in 2009. Ten Most Damaging Data Breaches of 2009 U.S. to Join Fingerprint Sharing — CBC News - Canada reports that the U.S…. Continue Reading
Some Social Networking Developments
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityIf you are a regular user of online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, you want to check out a new research paper by a couple of researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytech that points to some disturbing evidence of the “leakage” of personally identifiable information from the social networking sites… Continue Reading
