Blog Assignment 7: Privacy Scavenger Hunt
Senator Rockefeller Questions Whisper About Privacy Practices : The Senator Rockefeller has asked the Whisper company which is an app for iOS and Android phones questions concerning their privacy practices and policies. They have said they respect the users privacy and their desire to not be tracked. In the other hand, the Guardian revealed on how the whisper does in fact track the users messages and specifically gives out the precise time and location of the message. From my view of point, now a days we as the users of different apps are not 100% secured of not having the apps tracking what we post. Even if the app ensures the users they respect the privacy settings they have.
FCC Levies $10 Million Fine Against Carriers for Breach of Consumer Privacy: The Federal Communications Commission gave a fine up to $10 million to TerraCome and YourTel American phone companies. The fine was given to them for storing their customers private information on unprotected internet servers where anyone around the world can access it. Also, in the last month the FCC made a settlement with Verizon reaching $7.4 million over privacy violations after they released consumer call information to the National Security Agency. These companies try to be sneaky into not wanting the FCC to know they're putting the customers private information in the internet where millions of people can easily have access to it. In my opinion, I find this to be violating the customers privacy and agree with FCC to fine them with that huge amount of money.
EPIC Urges Department of Transportation to Protect Driver Privacy: The website EPIC has sent detailed comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urging them to protect drivers privacy the technology called vehicle-to-vehicle also referred as to V2V. This V2V technology allows drivers letting them know about impending crashes by warnings through transmitted data between vehicles. EPIC is urging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to do a more detailed assessment of the privacy and security of the V2V communications. Asking to have complete anonymity, to not collect personally identifiable information without the written authorization of the vehicle owner, make sure no data is store in no way, to adhere the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, and lastly to require an encryption of the V2V communications. After looking at this article I find this to be the right way of demanding the NHTSA to make sure the vehicle owners information is protected and giving them complete privacy.
FCC Levies $10 Million Fine Against Carriers for Breach of Consumer Privacy: The Federal Communications Commission gave a fine up to $10 million to TerraCome and YourTel American phone companies. The fine was given to them for storing their customers private information on unprotected internet servers where anyone around the world can access it. Also, in the last month the FCC made a settlement with Verizon reaching $7.4 million over privacy violations after they released consumer call information to the National Security Agency. These companies try to be sneaky into not wanting the FCC to know they're putting the customers private information in the internet where millions of people can easily have access to it. In my opinion, I find this to be violating the customers privacy and agree with FCC to fine them with that huge amount of money.
EPIC Urges Department of Transportation to Protect Driver Privacy: The website EPIC has sent detailed comments to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urging them to protect drivers privacy the technology called vehicle-to-vehicle also referred as to V2V. This V2V technology allows drivers letting them know about impending crashes by warnings through transmitted data between vehicles. EPIC is urging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to do a more detailed assessment of the privacy and security of the V2V communications. Asking to have complete anonymity, to not collect personally identifiable information without the written authorization of the vehicle owner, make sure no data is store in no way, to adhere the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, and lastly to require an encryption of the V2V communications. After looking at this article I find this to be the right way of demanding the NHTSA to make sure the vehicle owners information is protected and giving them complete privacy.
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