"The real lesson is, 'Stop: Don't give out your personal information,'" said Sarah Downey, a privacy advocate at Abine. "Consumers have to assume that any information that a company has can be lost, shared, sold, stolen, and used in a potentially long list of other ways that were never intended."
Privacy advocates see such growing databases of individual faces as a significant emerging threat to privacy. Sarah Downey, a privacy analyst with pro-privacy software vendor Abine, indicated that the technology was particularly alarming in the hands of Facebook.
Date: Jun 18, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Facebook strips 'privacy' from new 'data use' policy
"This is a significant acknowledgement that Facebook is focused on data collection, data storage and data sales, because that's where they make their money," says Sarah Downey, a privacy analyst at security software company Abine. "They're more accurately describing what they do."
"It's actually 'Do Not Target,'" said Sarah Downey, privacy analyst and attorney at online privacy company Abine. "Consumer data will still be collected and sold for a variety of purposes...This is just the tip of the iceberg, the question of whether you are seeing a personalized ad or not."
Sarah Downey, privacy analyst and attorney at online privacy company Abine, said ultimately change will be driven by consumers and Do Not Track technologies. (Abine offers a Do Not Track Plus browser add-on that can protect people from tracking, even if the advertiser was able to subvert the default
"It's dangerous for two companies to have so much personal data, regardless of whether the specific threats of that data consolidation are immediately clear," says Sarah Downey, a privacy analyst at software maker Abine.
Date: Jan 26, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
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