Chris Morran
The consumerist
Friday, September 30, 2011
Because News Corp. has apparently given up any pretensions to respecting the privacy of others, it recently updated the privacy policy for the Wall Street Journal website to allow the company to connect personally identifiable information with Web browsing data without user consent.
Before the change, which was made on Tuesday, the WSJ.com privacy policy stated it would obtain “express affirmative consent” to combine personal data with “click stream information.”
And it’s not just WSJ.com. The change is being made to all member sites in the Journal’s Digital Network, including Marketwatch.com, AllthingD.com, Barrons.com and SmartMoney.com.
Additionally, the privacy policy now states that the sites collects mobile browser ID information.
2 Responses to “Wall Street Journal Changes Privacy Policy To Track Users’ Browsing Data Without Consent”
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BIG BROTHER and or (god) wants to know right????
Big brother has become like a huge vaccum. One way of braking a vaccum is blocking it real good.
It’s hunger to be nosy will do the rest.
BYTHETWILIGHTdotNET Reply:
September 30th, 2011 at 11:23 am
Is Wall Street Journal affiliated with ‘New York City Bathroom’?
You just have to experience to feel the true weight of my words.