Facebook’s new music features have sparked a debate over privacy, as we explained in last week’s Music Ally report. However, personal radio service Pandora is facing its own privacy row, with a class action lawsuit filed against the company in the US. The lawsuit says Pandora is flouting a 1988 federal law that bans companies for disclosing customers’ purchases or rentals of videos, books and sound recordings.
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Facebook kills off Facebook Places and alters privacy settings
Is Facebook Places going to be a big deal for music marketing as people check in to gigs and other music events? Not any more. The social network has announced that it is “phasing out the mobile-only Places feature”.
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Pandora reveals details of app privacy investigation
Music service Pandora has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury as part of an investigation into how apps share information on their users. The company revealed the news itself in an SEC filing…
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Facebook U-turn on plans to share more user data
Facebook’s latest privacy controversy has been rumbling this week, after the social network revealed it planned to allow third-party applications and websites to ask users to share their mobile numbers and addresses.
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MySpace hit by data-sharing accusations
Facebook’s latest privacy controversy concerned user data being shared with advertisers, but it’s not the only social network to be facing such accusations. MySpace is in the line of fire, […]
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Facebook’s new privacy controls rolling out today
After weeks of flak, Facebook will today start rolling out new privacy controls for its users, in an attempt to ease fears about how little control they have over how their data is shared. VP of product Chris Cox announced the news at yesterday’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference, saying that the new controls are “drastically simplified”…