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Consumer Bill of Rights
“American consumers can’t wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information is safe online. As the Internet evolves, consumer trust is essential for the continued...
View ArticlePrivacy Article Round-Up
For today’s post, I rounded up some of the most interesting articles on Internet privacy from different online sources from the week. Here are the highlights of the reads! Article 1: Eric Pfanner,...
View ArticleTips to Help Protect Yourself from Becoming A Victim Of Identity Theft:
Imagine you are drinking your morning coffee, you open the newspaper to catch up on the current events and much to your surprise you see your name in an article describing a man who was arrested the...
View ArticleMore tips for filing a consumer complaint
A few weeks ago my colleague Mary Sue Greenleaf wrote a post about filing consumer complaints with the Colorado Attorney General’s office. This post is intended as a supplement to her post and will...
View ArticleResources to give you more control over your online information
There are a number of resources that can give you control over what information you share over the internet. I have divided some of the ones I like into several categories including, tracking blockers,...
View ArticleWhat are my rights if a company loses my personal information?
Do breaches of my information occur? Yes. While big scandals such as the Target one that just occurred are not overly common, companies regularly lose personal information about consumers. Companies...
View ArticleThe White House View on Information Privacy and Big Data
The White House has begun to look into what companies do with consumer information and recently completed a report on big data. The report looks at the use of information both by companies and the...
View ArticleThe Telemarketing Terminator
Telemarketers seem to target anyone with an active phone number, and their annoying and untimely solicitation calls are usually as appreciated as a fellow movie-goer chewing popcorn with his mouth...
View ArticleDoes Posting a Legal Notice on your Facebook Wall Protect Your Copyright and...
Earlier this year, anyone actively on Facebook probably saw a resurgence of friends posting a copyright/privacy notice on their wall, addressed to Facebook, and attempting to restrict Facebook’s...
View ArticleYour Facebook Account Doesn’t Have to Die with You
In a 2014 estimate, there were almost 1.4 billion Facebook users in the world, with 890 million of these users spending an average of 21 minutes per day on Facebook. Even senior citizens, traditionally...
View ArticlePrivacy in the Digital Age: Data Tracking and Data Brokers
It’s a bit of an understatement to say that the Internet changed everything, because it most certainly did. Almost all of humanity’s combined knowledge can be found on the Internet. Friends and family...
View ArticleTaking Back Our Data: Cutting Down on Data Tracking
In my last blog post, I told you about how data tracking and data brokers operate, and how they are gaining access to your Internet data. Now that you know who is looking at your data and how they are...
View ArticleConsumer Choice Legislation And You
Third party data collection is a scary topic, and though you might know what it is and various means to minimize its effects it seems like there is no legal way to stop it. Under current U.S. laws...
View ArticleWhen is a Landlord Allowed to Enter Your Home?
When is a Landlord Allowed to Enter Your Home? What Does the Law Say? Unfortunately in Colorado there is not many protections for a tenant’s privacy in relation to their landlord. Boulder County and...
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