[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #432: You want privacy?

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OPLIN 4cast #432: You want privacy?
April 8th, 2015

[image: keyhole]Just about everybody would like to feel that the things
they do on the Internet remain private, at least sometimes. In reality,
many of us, according to the Pew folks
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/03/16/Americans-Privacy-Strategies-Post-Snowden/>,
expect that someone in the government will be snooping on us, or we assume
that someday, some hacker will break into a company’s data and get
information about us. But we also assume that when a company says it will
keep our data private, it will at least try to protect our privacy. Judging
by a couple of recent news stories, that does not always happen.

   - Report: Facebook tracks all visitors, even if you’re not a user and
   opted out
   <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/report-facebook-tracks-all-visitors-even-if-youre-not-a-user-and-opted-out/>
   (Ars Technica | Glyn Moody) “This newly found tracking, used to provide
   targeted advertising, is carried out through Facebook’s social widget, the
   Like Button. A cookie is placed in the browser when someone visits any page
   in the facebook.com domain, including sections that do not require an
   account. For visitors that are not Facebook users, the cookie contains a
   unique identifier, and it has an expiration date of two years. Facebook
   users receive additional cookies that identify them uniquely.”
   - Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’
   <http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/31/facebook-tracks-all-visitors-breaching-eu-law-report>
   (The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs) “EU privacy law states that prior consent
   must be given before issuing a cookie or performing tracking, unless it is
   necessary for either the networking required to connect to the service
   (‘criterion A’) or to deliver a service specifically requested by the user
   (‘criterion B’). The same law requires websites to notify users on their
   first visit to a site that it uses cookies, requesting consent to do so.”
   - RadioShack’s bankruptcy could give your customer data to the highest
   bidder
   <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/radioshack-s-bankruptcy-could-give-your-customer-data-to-the-highest-bidder>
   (Bloomberg Business | Joshua Brustein) “RadioShack’s customers—even those
   whose most recent purchase came years ago—could also find themselves sold
   off in the deal. The company included personal data in its bankruptcy
   auction as its own asset class. A website maintained by Hilco Streambank,
   which is serving as an intermediary for RadioShack, says that more than 13
   million e-mail addresses and 65 million customer names and physical address
   files are for sale
   <http://www.hilcostreambank.com/assets/radioshack-assets-for-sale>.”
   - How safe is your information when a company goes bankrupt?
   <http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20150404-how-safe-is-your-information-when-a-company-goes-bankrupt.ece>
   (Dallas Morning News | Michael A. Lindenberger) “As with many bankrupt
   firms, that list would have been worth a fortune to the right buyer,
   especially if the data could be sold free of any obligation to keep it
   private. Like most large and reputable companies, RadioShack had promised
   customers not to sell the data it collected to third parties. But
   bankruptcy court is a unique setting in American law, and one of its chief
   purposes is to maximize the value of a bankrupt company’s assets even if it
   must sever otherwise valid contracts.”

 *Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Privacy and dot.com bankruptcies: Protection of personal data.
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=b67742d3-b09c-4dfd-a6f6-42b0cb3c9f86%40sessionmgr4004&vid=0&hid=4212&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=cph&AN=17391971>
   (*Information Systems Security*, July/Aug. 2005, p9-13 | Edward H.
   Freeman)
   - Big Brother is cashing in on you.
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/pov/detail/detail?sid=00ff0421-5f02-4d70-b29a-714ce8250b96%40sessionmgr4004&vid=0&hid=4212&bdata=JnNpdGU9cG92LWxpdmU%3d#db=pwh&AN=95381829>
   (*World Today*, April/May 2014, p18-20 | Caroline Baylon)
   - Online privacy: Regional differences.
   <http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=f0e01e55-c7f3-43a4-9d6e-1ab49984d696%40sessionmgr4005&vid=0&hid=4212&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=100777101>
   (*Communications of the ACM*, Feb. 2015, p18-20 | Logan Kugler)

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