Reading the terms of service and privacy policies on the websites you visit is a thankless task.
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Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann, in a blog post Friday, rolled out the site's updated terms of service, along with revamped acceptable-use and privacy policies.
The free, open-source plug-in, an extension for Firefox, checks a library of scraped terms of service and privacy policies from dozens of major sites that updates every three hours.
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Roll your eyes and LOL, but boyd is a highly sought-after ethnographer--Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is an instant message buddy--who has helped tech companies shape online products and privacy policies aimed at youth.
The difficulty of creating and implementing privacy policies that strike the right balance is obvious to all who are involved in the privacy arena.
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But even among educated, otherwise-sensible people, plenty of men and women alike breeze through privacy settings and policies without reading or changing a thing.
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Companies are free to establish their own privacy and security policies (most if not all online businesses, including Forbes.com, state their privacy policies online), but all are mandated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to follow their stated policies.
The group also wants Google to explain how it will refine and update its privacy policies to reflect the novel capabilities of Google Glass.
The seeming inevitability of these attacks makes many companies wonder whether all of their internal data privacy and security policies are worth the expense.
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User data is gathered surreptitiously, few users have the ability or time to know how it is collected, and even good privacy policies change quickly.
Make Data Security a Competitive Advantage: According to a recent PwC Health Research Institute online survey of 1, 000 consumers, if cost, quality, and access were equal among choices, a third of those consumers would be swayed to select one hospital over another if one had clearer privacy and security policies.
With much fanfare, and with more than a little criticism from privacy advocates, Google recently announced the update of its privacy policies and terms of service.
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Facebook continues to generate a considerable amount of controversy and criticism over its policies around user privacy and its stock price.
The proposals, which are breathtaking in scope, change the rules for union elections and create havoc by dismissing the privacy rights, internal policies and IT systems of U.S. employers.
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Kaiser recommends people familiarize themselves with privacy policies and regularly update privacy settings on sites such as Facebook.
Smartphone apps often lack privacy policies and don't offer as much information and control over their use of personal data.
Some privacy groups have filed a complaint against Facebook to America's Federal Trade Commission, arguing that the recent changes to its privacy policies and settings violate federal law.
California already requires websites and apps to have privacy policies.
As part of a settlement with the FTC, Facebook agreed to submit to an external audit of its privacy policies and practices every two years for the next 20 years.
That is why the U.S. General Services Administration recommends people set up a "social-media will, " review the privacy policies and terms and conditions of each website and stipulate in their traditional will that the "online executor" get a copy of the death certificate.
This adds to two Facebook-related security holes that surfaced last week, in which there were likely no malicious intentions but which didn't help already-concerned Facebook users from wondering just how safe their data is on a site that repeatedly modifies its privacy policies and has had a well-documented recent history of security flaws and phishing scams.
But they also want to be sure they do not run afoul of privacy laws in this and perhaps other countries by insuring their privacy policies are written with those laws in mind.
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This involves educating all stakeholders publishers, advertisers and consumers and also building the privacy requirements into our product, policies and processes.
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What legal provisions for digital data are we lacking in the U.S., and what policies for online privacy could adapt from European policy making?
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While the U.S. government has, in general, let search engines and advertisers set their own privacy policies, the European Commission has indicated privacy laws may be coming soon: In April, the E.
The amended Final Rule revises the parental notice provisions to help ensure that operators' privacy policies, and the direct notices they must give parents before collecting children's personal information, are concise and timely.
Google is settling with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over claims that it used misleading tactics and reneged on its own privacy policies when it introduced its Google Buzz social networking service last year, Bloomberg reports.
After the introduction, the second part explores the implications of digital death by conceptualizing digital assets and surveying the underlying legal principles of contractual policies, probate, property, and privacy concerns.
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Its legions of lawyers and computer experts are constantly sifting through company policies and government legislation to see how our privacy is being compromised.
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Another concern, Karp said, is that, as Tumblr grows, it will encounter from its users the kind of resistance to change that forced Facebook to shelve its Beacon advertising program and have greeted each revision to its privacy policies.
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