If someone can convince me that there are large privacy concerns with the census, I'd be glad to jump on the bandwagon.
TRUSTe, one of the first and largest privacy certification programs, acknowledged on Friday that it was surprised and alarmed to read the study, which identified potential violations by seven members of TRUSTe.
The new program is "a large privacy violation waiting to happen, with records garnered under the program likely retained even after you've become a citizen," said Timothy Edgar, a legislative counsel for the A.C.L.U.
Location, and realtime location at that, is a rather large privacy issue which, when a service becomes popular, starts making people question just how sensitive their information is.
The case, originally filed in August 2014 by Europe v Facebook, currently has 25,000 claimants signed up, with another 60,000 on a waiting list, making it potentially the largest privacy class action in Europe — if it ever gets heard in court, that is.
Facebook's latest program, Graph Search, may be the company's largest privacy infraction ever.
The news was announced last week, as part of a larger data privacy push for the site, which has scrambled to rehabilitate its image in the wake of political upheaval tied to information sharing.
The larger, complicated privacy policy could back up the short, simple transparency statement.
This relies on smart meters, which raise vertical (individual to large organisation) privacy concerns.
