Posted by: bhartzer on: September 7, 2011
Network Solutions, a popular domain name registrar, is revealing the real identities of domain name owners even though the they have opted-in and paid for the Network Solutions domain name privacy service. When a domain name is registered, buyers have the option of paying $9.99 per year extra to keep their domain name ownership private. [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: March 3, 2011
Chase Bank is mining domain name whois data in the pursuit of credit card customers. When they encounter whois privacy on a domain name, they are ignoring it and instead sending the credit card offer to the domain name’s web hosting company instead.
Posted by: bhartzer on: November 3, 2010
As you may be aware, Facebook has, very publicly, said that they don’t want search engines like Google and Bing to index your private Facebook profile. I have written prior to about how Facebook has had e-mail privacy problems and all sorts of other privacy problems when it comes towards the information that we place [...]
Posted by: bhartzer on: February 23, 2009
Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court wrote Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt today questioning the company’s priorities following efforts by one of Google’s top executives to dissuade a charitable foundation from supporting the nonpartisan group’s privacy efforts. “We have tried to constructively engage Google on its privacy problems for about six months now,” Court wrote. “So it’s [...]
