California AG publicly shames United Airlines on Twitter over crappy privacy policy
Cory Doctorow at 3:28 pm Fri, Oct 12, 2012
Shum sez, "California Attorney General Kamala Harris has been working to oversee tech companies so they better protect consumer privacy--notably forging an agreement with the 6 leading mobile platforms to require the apps they host have privacy policies--these policies give both the state and individuals standing to sue if they are breached. Today she took one more step to enforce--not by pulling out the stick,
but the tweet--with a public call for United Airlines to follow the law and post a policy describing what it will be doing with what private information of individuals that its apps collect."