The parties are to sort out agreed terms and revisit the case management process in November. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Tag: location
Physical location of video conferencing servers key to Australian performance: ACCC
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•Skype comes out as the big winner in the ACCC’s first report on the performance of streaming and video conferencing services. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Foursquare and Factual join forces to become a location data giant
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•Factual founder Gil Elbaz will join Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley on the executive team and board. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Google labels ACCC’s location data privacy claims as ‘out of context’
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•The Australia Federal Court has directed the ACCC to clarify the issues it wants to have settled in court. …read more Source:: Legal
ACCC alleges Google mislead consumers over Android location data handling
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•Consumer watchdog says Google collected and used location data without providing users with an informed choice. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Telcos promise to stop selling location data, but Congress is not satisfied
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•A House committee chairman wants the FCC to provide an emergency briefing on Monday to explain why it hasn’t stopped carriers from selling users’ location data without consent. …read more Source:: Open Source S
City of LA sues Weather Channel app for sharing location data with advertisers
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•IBM-owned app maker accused of sharing user location data with affiliates of its parent company and other advertisers, but also hiding the practice in a 10,000-long privacy policy. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Tens of iOS apps caught collecting and selling location data
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•Apps collect data such as GPS coordinates, WiFi network IDs and more, and pass all of it to advertising and monetization firms. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Google: To be clear, this is how we track you even with Location History turned off
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•Google has now clarified what turning off the Location History setting really means. …read more Source:: Open Source S
AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off
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•A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user’s explicit permission to a firm designed to monetize user locations. …read more Source:: Open Source S