Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Major privacy bill approved in California
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To prevent an even stronger privacy proposition from appearing on the ballot in the fall, the California legislators rushed through a bill providing strong privacy rights for all California citizens. Companies making lots of money from the ‘net dislike the bill but supported it in order to derail the proposition.
(Cross posted from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.
Since the law doesn’t go into effect until 2020, there is plenty of time for the legislators to agree with the inevitable demands from tech companies to water down the bill. Pending the expected vast dilution, the bill provides a few landmark protections for consumers, including:
The price of free apps is not zero
(cross-post from my other blog, Nonprofit Update.)
You may not hand over money for that cool app, but you might pay in other ways.
Like handing over personal information. Or perhaps the personal information of your friends.
An article in the Wall Street Journal, Selling You on Facebook, reports on their research into the data obtained by a variety of Facebook apps. Many apps look for personal information, sometimes including your political or religious beliefs.
