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The co-chairs of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus — Representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton — wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission demanding answers about “supercookies” and whether some websites are able to recreate users’ profiles after people deleted their regular cookies. This follows their letter to Groupon’s CEO asking similar questions about whether customers’ personal information could be vulnerable to hackers. Click the headline above to read more. Read More
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emailGroupon Amends Privacy Policy to Collect More Sensitive Information, Shopping History
Posted on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
According to Smart Money, Groupon has expanded its rules about what the site may do with users’ personal information, including a user’s birth date, shopping history, and location. The article notes that worried consumers can take a few steps to protect their privacy. For example, it says you should sign up for deal sites “with an email account you could easily ditch — say, a Hotmail account that you use exclusively for buying things or receiving newsletters. That’s far better than signing up using an existing social networking account, which a growing number of sites will let you do.” Read More