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Articles tagged “privacy”

Online Travel

Privacy concerns over new Disney theme park payment bracelets

Rep Ed Markey is the author of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and his questions on Disney's new pass aimed at children are valid ones, if only to understand if Disney has properly thought this through and has the protections in place.

Skift | 11 years ago

Privacy concerns over new Disney theme park payment bracelets

Airlines

Delta gets sued by California for mobile app privacy violations

The California AG was also considering suing United, but didn't, so looks like it complied and Delta didn't in time. At $2,500 per app violation, it could rack up a hefty fine on this one.

Don Thompson, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Delta gets sued by California for mobile app privacy violations

Online Travel

Fear of identity theft is not a deterrent for using public wi-fi — but it should be

Internet ignorance is bliss. Public Wi-Fi use has jumped 240 percent in the past year, but privacy fears aren’t strong enough to stop users from sharing credit card numbers and work files on open servers.

Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times | 12 years ago

Fear of identity theft is not a deterrent for using public wi-fi — but it should be

Airlines

United Airlines chided on privacy policy for mobile app

Airlines and other travel-apps publishers should be particularly vigilant about formulating pro-consumer privacy policies for their apps, which track users' whereabouts 24/7.

Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Google apologizes for not deleting the Street View personal data it promised to delete

Google's willingness to be forthcoming shouldn't be confused with transparency. There's no reason it would have spent the time necessary writing the programs to allow it to capture this data if it did not intend to do something with the data.

Josh Halliday, The Guardian | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Call it a tracker, not a phone — that’s more app

The genie is out of the bottle -- smartphones track your every movement for law enforcement and travel apps' developers purposes. The backlash is coming.

Skift | 12 years ago

Skift Originals

Privacy group uncovers drone blitz over U.S.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation correctly highlights how unchecked drone flights over the U.S. could pose a threat to civil liberties.

Skift | 12 years ago