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In yet another development in the debate on Facebook privacy settings, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced the imposition of various privacy requirements upon the company over the next 20 years.
The initial complaint to the FTC mainly related to changes Facebook made in 2009 that allowed public access to content on pages that users believed were private or inaccessible. The new imposed measures require the company to inform users as to how their data is shared, to obtain express consent to override their privacy settings, and to conduct an independent privacy audit every two years
Mark Zuckerburg, the founder of Facebook, yesterday acknowledged that the company had made a ‘bunch of mistakes’ that had ‘overshadowed much of the good work we’ve done’, whilst pointing to various privacy improvements they had since made.
This is the latest development in the ongoing battle over internet privacy between the FTC and internet companies.
It will be interesting to see how Facebook balance the new privacy requirements with their aim to provide automatic ‘frictionless’ sharing by users.
The UK government is considering extending this power to depart from retained EU case law to additional lower courts and tribunals, namely the Court of Appeal in England and Wales and the High Court of Justice in England and Wales and their equivalents.
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Lord Justice Arnold has applied the guidance of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to the evidence before him, in the long standing trade mark dispute between Sky and Skykick.
The Hiscox Cyber Readiness report, a review of 3300 organisations, will be a stark warning for CEO’s of SME’s in the UK and in Europe.
How secure is your fitness tracker? (Not to mention your smartwatch, sleep tracker, smart shoe insoles and wearable Bluetooth keyboard). It’s something that many of us give little thought to, but perhaps we should be more concerned.
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