mobile privacy laws Archives

The truth about the collection and use of eReceipts and mobile payment data

10/12/201110/12/2011 Julie Campbell

Mobile payments and eReceipts are primed and ready to become widespread, but as this is a brand new technology and technique, many people are wondering how the data collected from their devices in order to perform those transactions will be used by retailers and merchants. The traditional online marketplace, with its e-commerce, email marketing, and other forms of online advertising, are now considered to be technologies that have matured, and standard privacy practices are in place to help regulate them. There had been a wrench thrown into the works by…

Google cedes to European privacy regulators and boosts Wi-Fi router security

09/15/201109/15/2011 Jesse Collins

After a notable battle, Google has bowed to the rules laid down by European privacy regulators with an announcement that it would be providing residential Wi-Fi router owners worldwide with the option to take their devices off a Google registry that is used for locating mobile phone users. This new option follows a warning issued by the European regulators almost four months ago, which stated that it violated European law to use Wi-Fi router data to collect information regarding the locations, identities, and names of mobile phones within their range.…

Obama administration considers privacy protection for teens

07/24/201107/24/2011 Jennifer Goula

More than a dozen advocacy groups for privacy and child protection have requested that the Obama administration include adolescents into the recommendations it makes for privacy protection within this year’s white paper. This was only one of the two primary requests made by the groups in a letter that was issued to the Commerce Department, Justice Department, the White House, and the Interagency Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy co-chairs for the National Science and Technology Council at the White House. These groups include the American Academy of Pediatrics, the…

Some experts think rules for mobile privacy should wait

07/04/201107/06/2011 Stephanie Beck

Congress recently examined the results of the TRUSTe mobile privacy survey in order to consider the kinds of privacy protection rules that should be implemented in the mobile marketplace, but some experts believe that there shouldn’t be a rush to create these regulations. The survey was quoted by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the Senate Judiciary chairman, when he opened the Judiciary mobile privacy hearing. It was further used as Senate Commerce Subcommittee testimony with regards to “Protection and Privacy in the Mobile Marketplace”. Among the more notable points that were…

Location based ads threatened by newly proposed law

06/22/2011 L. Green

Senator Al Franken has sponsored a new bill that could lead to consequences for the location-based advertising marketplace which is only just beginning to get off the ground. Joined by Senator Richard Blumenthal in sponsoring this proposed litigation, Franken’s bill would necessitate that businesses obtain specifically expressed consent from mobile device users before data regarding their locations can be collected from their devices. Moreover, it would mean that these businesses would also need to obtain the user’s consent before the collected data may be shared with a third party such…