Social Media CyberWatch – May/June 2013
This Social Media CyberWatch outlines privacy law developments, online service provider relationships with the NSA PRISM program, and Facebook privacy news.
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This Social Media CyberWatch outlines privacy law developments, online service provider relationships with the NSA PRISM program, and Facebook privacy news.
This Social Media CyberWatch looks at various legislative updates to privacy law, as well as other social media tracking activities.
This edition of Social Media CyberWatch looks at new developments in privacy research, legal debates, and online service provider policies and decisions.
This Social Media CyberWatch looks at the rebirth of CISPA, death of bill C-30, EU privacy lobbying, Facebook and Google Play privacy concerns, and various web tracking policy developments such as Do Not Track and third-party cookies implementations.
Source: Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg
Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. may face stricter privacy rules requiring them to let users shift data to competitors in the EU under proposed changes to a draft law.
Source: Annalist
Digitask, a company whose reputation was clearly damaged after its trojan virus was found and analysed by the Chaos Computer Club in 2011, seems to still be a regular contractor of German authorities.
Source: Bruce Einhorn, San Francisco Chronicle
A new report shows just how porous China’s infamous Great Firewall might be for local Internet users determined to access banned websites.
Source: Salvador Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
A new app is being tested in Nashville, Tenn., that can check in people on Facebook and send them offers using facial-recognition cameras.
Source: Joseph Menn, Reuters
On March 9 of this year, a piece of Facebook software spotted something suspicious.
Source: Galen Moore, Boston Business Journal
Tech giants who are otherwise competing fiercely for market share in mobile media and technology are now holding hands, in expectation of congressional efforts to regulate data privacy in the fastest-growing segment of their business.