Google announced a one year ban on interviews with CNET in response to a CNET article that published personal information about Google’s CEO… that they found online using Google.
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| 72% of 464 major corporate web sites had policies regarding re-using personal data for marketing purposes that were considered POOR.
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| Cartoon: pssst - wanna buy some personal information?
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| 66% of consumers believe that, given an opportunity, most businesses would take advantage of the public if they thought they would not be discovered.
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50,583,030 personal data records have been accessed by malicious users, or lost, in the last 8 months. That’s 150 every minute. Many of these records included credit card numbers, SINs, and other personal information. And only 20% of privacy breaches are reported.
PrivacyRights.org, http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm
Computer Security Institute, http://i.cmpnet.com/gocsi/db_area/pdfs/fbi/FBI2005.pdf
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| In an Flesch-Kincaid reading ease analysis of 200 online privacy policies, 31% were "unreadable", 56% were "difficult", and only 13% were "Ideal" or "Acceptable". This just in: privacy policies are hard to read, and are obviously not there for the benefit of consumers.
Not that it matters, since no one ever reads them anyway.
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