Nolo’s Privacy Matters Blog Premieres!
Welcome to Privacy Matters, a Nolo blog devoted to information privacy and data security issues as they relate to small businesses and consumers. Information privacy covers the rules that apply to the...
View ArticleRockYou to Settle with FTC Over Massive Data Breach
The social networking and gaming site RockYou.com was hacked in December 2009 and suffered a severe data breach, which exposed personal information including email addresses, passwords and photos of 32...
View ArticleData Broker Spokeo to Pay $800,000 Under FTC Settlement
Online data broker Spokeo agreed to pay $800,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it marketed information profiles on millions of consumers to companies that used them for...
View ArticleCongress Probes Leading Data Brokers on Dossiers
On Tuesday, the Congressional Privacy Caucus sent inquiry letters to nine of the largest data brokers regarding their privacy practices, including how they collect, analyze and sell consumer...
View ArticleGoogle to Pay $22.5 Million Record Fine to FTC over Safari Tracking
Google agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle claims levied by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that Google violated an earlier privacy settlement it had with the agency. Google placed...
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