The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has gone after its first non-delivering crowdfunder, fining board game "maker" Eric Chevalier for raising $122,000 on Kickstarter and not producing anything. Chevalier promised a game called The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, but spent the money on personal expenses. He provided neither a game nor refunds, despite updates that had claimed … [Read more...]
WAPost on Wearables Privacy
We're a little late on this, but our attention was just drawn to a really good Washington Post article about privacy concerns surrounding wearable tech (limited reads). The piece uses recent Samsung launches as the news hook, but it raises good questions about FDA and FTC regulatory issues that device makers and app writers might run up against. The massive amount of data … [Read more...]