The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, September 10, 2012
The Week in Privacy and Online Safety, September 10, 2012A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence.
General Online Privacy
News (U.S.) - Amazon confirms that the Kindle Fire's Silk browser tracks users, The Inquirer, Sep. 7, 2012
News (U.S.) - FBI Says Laptop Wasn’t Hacked; Never Possessed File of Apple Device IDs, Wired, Sep. 4, 2012
Research (U.S.) - A Critical Re-Examination of Health Data Re-Identification Risks, Daniel Barth-Jones, June 4, 2012
Research (Canada) - A Policy is Not Enough: It Must be Reflected in Concrete Practices, Ann Cavoukian, Sep. 2012
General Online Safety
Research (U.S.) - Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online, Pascoe, Sep. 2012
News (U.K.) - Most parents reject automatic broadband filtering, TalkTalk finds, uSwitch, Sep. 6, 2012
News (New Zealand) – Cyberbullying Law’s Effectiveness Questioned, New Zealand Herald, Sep. 6, 2012
News (U.S.) - 13 Year-Old Steals Car, Drives 13 Hours To Meet Her Xbox Live “Boyfriend”, Kotaku, Sep. 9, 2012
Advocates (U.S.) - What’s wrong with Net-safety ed … and what we can do about it, Anne Collier, Sep. 6, 2012
Advertising & Search
Policy (U.S.) - Guide to Help Mobile App Developers Observe Truth-in-Advertising, Privacy Principles, FTC, Sep. 5, 2012
News (U.S.) – Abine Software Let's You Count The Advertisers Tracking Your Web Activity, Business Insider, Sep. 7, 2012
News (U.S.) - How Advertisers Use Facebook To Figure Out When You're Pregnant, Business Insider, Sep. 10, 2012
Mobile
News (U.S.) - Amazon's New Kindle Fire Has Innovative Parental Control Options, Forbes, Sep. 6, 2012
Research (U.S.) - More than half of app users have avoided an app due to privacy concerns, Pew Internet, Sep. 5, 2012
News (U.S.) - Toys"R"Us ® Introduces tabeo ™ - A Tablet Specially Designed For Kids, PR Newswire, Sep. 10, 2012
Social Networks
News (U.S.) - How Instagram became the social network for tweens, CNet, Sep. 8, 2012
Legislation & Regulation
News (U.S.) - White House circulating draft of executive order on cybersecurity, The Hill, Sep. 6, 2012
News (E.U.) - US privacy, consumer groups back EU's proposed privacy rules, IDG News, Sep. 9, 2012
News (U.S.) - Dems Part Company With Republicans on Net Neutrality, Online Privacy, National Journal, Sep. 4, 2012
-- Compiled by David Burt, CISSP, CIPP