All-Spy Blog » privacy http://www.all-spy.com/blog Monitoring Solutions Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:49:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Facebook accounts and their ownerships http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/04/07/facebook-accounts-and-their-ownerships/ http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/04/07/facebook-accounts-and-their-ownerships/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:20:38 +0000 All-Spy http://www.all-spy.com/blog/?p=94 Some days ago I was stumbling through some websites when a title of an article captured my attention. That was “Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?” Source I admit that I had to feed my curiosity with information. What I have found out was not so pleasant. I don’t know if any of you will feel attacked by this, but it seems that through new Facebook’s Terms and Conditions they can do whatever they want with your private information, forever.

From my point o view, I don’t find this measure as adequate. Is not that I’m posting information that I don’t want to share or something, but the idea that my content being in someone’s hands simply doesn’t make me happy. More than that, I find this as a privacy invasion. “In reality, we wouldn’t share your information in a way you wouldn’t want”— but the question in this case is: why there was the need to change the Terms if it doesn’t matter who’s owning the content? There definitely is a question mark.

]]> http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/04/07/facebook-accounts-and-their-ownerships/feed/ 0 More than 95% of consumers think online privacy is an important issue http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/03/27/more-than-95-of-consumers-think-online-privacy-is-an-important-issue/ http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/03/27/more-than-95-of-consumers-think-online-privacy-is-an-important-issue/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:37:34 +0000 All-Spy http://www.all-spy.com/blog/?p=93 Most consumers take steps to protect their privacy online, but one-third do not know their information may be collected by third parties for advertising purposes, according to the TRUSTe study, Consumer Attitudes About Behavioral Targeting.

35% of consumers feel their privacy has been violated in the last year through information they provided online.

More info.

]]> http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/03/27/more-than-95-of-consumers-think-online-privacy-is-an-important-issue/feed/ 0 Call to ‘shut down’ Street View http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/03/27/call-to-shut-down-street-view/ http://www.all-spy.com/blog/2009/03/27/call-to-shut-down-street-view/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:25:01 +0000 All-Spy http://www.all-spy.com/blog/?p=92 A formal complaint about Google’s Street View has been sent to the Information Commissioner (ICO).

Drawn up by lobby group Privacy International (PI), it cites more than 200 reports from members of the public identifiable via the service.

PI wants Street View shut down while the ICO investigates the service.

“The ICO has repeatedly made clear that it believes that in Street View the necessary safeguards are in place to protect people’s privacy,” said Google.

Read the hole article at BBC News

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