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Tag Archives: data protection

Privacy policies made palatable (or at least digestible)!

27-Nov-12

No way anybody’s going to abandon privacy policies anytime soon – not with the FTC’s and others’ calls for ever greater disclosure of mobile and Web services’ privacy practices (e.g., see this). But no one reads them – even if they could get through all the legal verbiage without nodding off. Knowing this, Mozilla, the [...]

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Facebook’s privacy primer for new users

07-Nov-12

Hey, kids, if you want to get parents, grandparents, or aunts and uncles on Facebook, now’s a better time than ever. FB now has a privacy primer for people who are signing up for the first time. “We’ve implemented these enhancements as part of our broader effort to integrate more privacy education into the new [...]

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Google’s data-security ed campaign & site

18-Jan-12

This week Google launched an ad campaign and Web site headlined “Good To Know,” according to a report at the Washington Post. Aimed at teaching Net users the basics of protecting their data in our increasingly social media environment, the campaign has ads appearing in “dozens of U.S. newspapers, including The New York Times, USA [...]

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Kids lying to Facebook, not their parents: Study

01-Nov-11

A whole lot of us know that 13 is Facebook’s minimum age, but fewer of us know that the reason for that is not kids’ online safety but a law called the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act designed to protect the privacy of kids’ data – a law administered by the Federal Trade Commission, which [...]

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