For sensitive data such as telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses, social security numbers or financial data, a site would have to explicitly request a user's permission to track and store the information.
And EPIC charges that most at odds with the privacy policy is a portion of Ask's terms of service that says it will start tracking an AskEraser user's searches again at the request of a law enforcement official--without notifying the user.
Under normal conditions, this requires the user's computer to send a request to the host computer, which then sends a response back to the user.
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We wait 14 days between receiving the request from the user and deleting the account.
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The second, developed with the help of Sid Stamm, a programmer, sends a special message with every page request asking that the user not be tracked.
Offer more guidance on managing profiles, including how to request deletion of posts a user has been "tagged" in by a friend.
An enterprising advocate for openness in government has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI for all information the agency uses related to Carrier IQ, the company under fire for monitoring user activity on smartphones and his request was flatly denied.
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At any time, any user is able to extend the expiration date or request deletion of the record.
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Time spent may vary considerably based on the wording of the request and the information available about the user.
This API is independent from the request access API and will not prompt the user to grant or deny access.
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The publisher encrypts the request, at this stage deciding what the user can do with the content, depending on what the user has requested.
Do you make an assessment of whether complying with such a request may put the human rights of the Twitter user at risk?
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According to the report, Miami-Dade's online ballot request system had "very low" security, with no user-specific logins or passwords.
What procedures does Twitter follow when you receive a request from a foreign government for the private information of a Twitter user?
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An attacker could even re-direct a request to transfer funds, while making it look to the app user like the transaction was proceeding unchanged.
Location is not shared with any third party or ad unless the user explicitly approves giving the current location to the current ad (for example, to request the ad locate the Target store nearest them).
If the user account of "tivo" logs in and requests a file, the plugin intercepts the request.
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As a user, I would rather give such sensitive information at the point-of-purchase or point-of-request.
In a victory for TV-lovers everywhere, the London-based High Court ruled that the Advertising Standards Authority may continue to run its anti-Jamster campaign (striking down Jamster's request for an injunction), and may also impose a daytime ad ban, due to almost 300 user complaints about Jamster's questionable business practices.
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