RIAA Stands Firm On High Damages For File-Sharing
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 9, 5:37 PM
Should Web users who share music for free have to face the same potential liability as those who sell pirated music? The record labels say the answer is yes.
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Will Google's Super Bowl Ad Backfire?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 8, 6:41 PM
For years consumer advocates have warned that Google poses a threat to Web users' privacy. Now, Google has provided privacy advocates with new ammunition in the form of a Super Bowl ad.
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Showdown Looms Over Future Of Google Books
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 5, 5:13 PM
In late 2008, the Department of Justice threatened to file an antitrust lawsuit against Google unless it backed out of a deal to power search ads for Yahoo. Google agreed to nix the deal, leaving Yahoo to form a partnership with Microsoft instead. Now, the DOJ might be getting ready to again flex its muscle with Google, this time to force the company to abandon ambitious plans to publish out-of-print books.
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Will Comcast Move To 'Three Strikes' Regime After Buying NBC?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 4, 4:10 PM
Some digital rights advocacy groups have long criticized the prospect of "three strikes" policies, which would involve Internet service providers disconnecting alleged copyright infringers. Today, at a hearing about the proposed Comcast-NBC merger, three-strikes opponent Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) voiced that concern. "Will Comcast continue to commit not to cut off their customers from the Internet without some sort of due process procedure," Doyle asked Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Roberts would not.
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Critics Still Unhappy With Google Book Deal
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 3, 6:37 PM
Some critics aren't any happier with the revised deal in the Google Book Search case than they were with the original. In fact, at least one prominent academic has come to view the proposed resolution more negatively as more time has gone by.
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Obama Touts Neutrality, But Can FCC Deliver?
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 2, 6:15 PM
President Barack Obama reiterated his support for net neutrality this week during an interview on YouTube. Obama's remarks aren't surprising, given that he has consistently touted the importance of improving broadband access and insuring neutrality. But whether the FCC will be able to enact neutrality regulations remains to be seen.
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Software Company Backs Passage Of Privacy Laws
Posted by Wendy Davis on Feb 1, 7:29 PM
Faced with the use of its technology to track consumers without their permission, software company Adobe Systems says it backs new privacy laws. "To ensure continuing consumer confidence in the Internet and in online commerce, Adobe supports the passage by Congress of comprehensive personal privacy legislation," the company said in comments to the Federal Trade Commission.
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EFF Shows How Web Companies Can Track Cookie-Deleters
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 29, 5:50 PM
Flash cookies aren't the only way of circumventing users' ability to opt out of online tracking. Web publishers also can extract a host of information from users' browsers -- including operating systems, time zones, screen size, plug-ins installed and system fonts -- and can use that trove of data to create digital fingerprints. What's more, those fingerprints can be used to identify returning users even if they've deleted their cookies.
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Flash Of Criticism At FTC Privacy Roundtable
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 28, 5:37 PM
Behavioral targeting companies had better call their lawyers. Federal Trade Commission consumer protection head David Vladeck warned this morning that the commission is getting ready to go after online ad companies that try to get around consumers' decisions to avoid online ad targeting.
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Note To Facebook: Yes, Web Users DO Care About Privacy
Posted by Wendy Davis on Jan 27, 5:40 PM
Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously said that Web users no longer cared about privacy. A new social norm had taken hold, he said. If he was going to launch Facebook again today, he would do so without the old settings that kept information hidden from outsiders. It was another big miscalculation for a company that has stumbled time and again on privacy.
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