Tag: PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may not know a lot about RapLeaf, but RapLeaf probably knows a lot about you. That's because RapLeaf is an online tracking company, and, like most other Internet profilers, it collects data on what individual consumers do online. According to a recent investigation from the Wall Street Journal, though, RapLeaf also collects and distributes the kind of highly personal information that other ...

Everyone knows that Facebook, like many other sites, uses our personal information to help companies target their online advertisements to various demographic groups. Unlike other sites, though, Facebook knows a lot about us -- including, in some cases, our sexuality. And, according to a recent study, it's not afraid to share that information with third-party companies. To test Facebook's ...

The same, privacy-conscious German government that threatened Google with legal action over its "invasive" Street View feature is now facing its very own security crisis, after a group of hackers recently demonstrated how to easily extract private information from government-issued ID cards. The hackers, who are part of the so-called 'Chaos Computer Club,' recently appeared on the German TV show ...

Much of the recent news surrounding online privacy rights has focused on Facebook, which has come under fire for its controversial approach to automatically spreading user information across the Web. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, though, Facebook's not the only social network surreptitiously sharing information with third-party sites and corporations. As the Journal ...

If you worry about the Federal Aviation Administration's aging computer systems and their inability to effectively deal with the constant flood of air traffic, perhaps you should spare a thought for the internal systems that keep track of the Administration's thousands of employees. Apparently, they're in need of some attention, too, with the FAA announcing that the names and social security ...

It was about 18 months ago that Monster.com's databases were hacked, compromising the personal information of roughly 1.2 million registrants (most of whom had signed up looking for a job, not for a new way to have their phone numbers stolen0. The job-seeker's site, of course, pledged to fix the hole right away, but, sadly, didn't do a particularly good job of it, as we're hearing that the ...