- FTC Shakes 'Google Money Tree'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 25, 2010
Four individuals who allegedly ran the "Google Money Tree" scam have agre ...
- Google Admits It Captured Emails, Passwords From WiFi Networks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 24, 2010
Google on Friday acknowledged for the first time that its Street Vi ...
- Advocacy Group Calls on Regulators To Investigate Fox's 'Hulu Missile Crisis'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 21, 2010
The advocacy group Public Knowledge is calling on federal regulators to investiga ...
- RIAA, File-Sharer To Face Off Over Damages
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 22, 2010
It's been almost two years since the Recording Industry Association of Ameri ...
- Facebook Takes Scammers To Federal Court
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Facebook this week sued three alleged scammers, including one who allegedly creat ...
- Facebook's Data-Leak Woes Worsening
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 21, 2010
Turns out Facebook's data leakage to advertisers could be even more ...
- FTC To Recommend Self-Regulation, Not New Laws
Marketing Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission's upcoming report about behavioral advertising will include suggestio ...
- FTC To Recommend Self-Regulation, Not New Laws, Says Commission Member
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission's upcoming report about behavioral advertising will include suggestio ...
- Righthaven Loses Lawsuit Against Blogger
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 20, 2010
A blogger who used eight sentences of a 30-sentence Las Vegas Review-Journ ...
- Zynga Sued Over Sharing Facebook Users' Data, Lawyer Pledges More Suits To Come
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 18, 2010
A Minnesota resident is suing game developer Zynga for allegedly selling person ...
- Latest Facebook Flub Raises Questions About Anonymous Ad Targeting
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The revelation this week that app developers are sending Facebook users' nam ...
- Court Papers Call Facebook's Beacon Settlement 'Deficient And Illusory'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 15, 2010
A Facebook user and privacy advocate who objected to the $9.5 milli ...
- Fox's Web Site Block Turns Internet Policy Debate In New Direction
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 18, 2010
Adding a new wrinkle to debates about Internet policy, Fox this weeke ...
- Google Settles Class-Action Suit, Marketers To Split $2.3M
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 14, 2010
Google has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a class-action lawsu ...
- Legal Issues Murky When Government, Marketers Mine Data From Social Sites
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 15, 2010
This week, reports from two different sources appeared detailing how information th ...
- Judge Denies McAfee's Motion To Dismiss Counts In Data-Pass Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A lawsuit against McAfee for allegedly tricking consumers into purchasing unwanted subscriptio ...
- Report Says Government Action, Private-Public Partnerships Needed For Universal Broadband
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 14, 2010
Ninety-five percent of U.S. households currently have access to broadband lines, b ...
- Complaint Alleges Facebook Shared Sensitive User Data With Advertisers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A Facebook update earlier this year resulted in the disclosure of user ...
- Less-Than-Legitimate Video Copyright Complaints Taint Election Season
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 13, 2010
As election season heats up, so too do questionable complaints about politician ...
- FEC Rules Paid-Search Political Ads Partially Exempt From Disclosure
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 11, 2010
Handing Google a partial victory, the Federal Elections Commission said that politic ...
- Writers Guild, Others Wary Of Web Fast Lane
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The Writers Guild of America East, which has long supported net neutrali ...
- Google Sued For Using Copyrighted Image In Print Ads Promoting AdWords
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 8, 2010
A Google ad touting the benefits of paid search has landed t ...
- Lawmakers Blast Legalese-Ridden Privacy Policies
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 10, 2010
Two influential lawmakers said Friday they were concerned that Web companies a ...
- The Forever Cookie: New Tracking Technologies Continue To Threaten Privacy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 11, 2010
In March of 2005, ad technology company United Virtualities boasted that ...
- Revised Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Satisfies Digital-Rights Advocates
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2010
A new version of a proposed anti-counterfeiting treaty no longer contains so ...
- Former FTC Staffer Alleges Google Says One Thing, Does Another
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 8, 2010
Privacy expert and former Federal Trade Commission staffer Christopher Soghoian has fil ...
- Microsoft, eBay And Intel Praise Rush Privacy Bill
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2010
A privacy bill proposed by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) requiring Web sit ...
- FTC Guides Could Restrict Marketers' Environmental Claims
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Marketers that use broad terms like "carbon neutral" or "green" in the ...
- Facebook Goofs With Opt-Out For Groups
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2010
There's no question that Facebook's revised Groups feature has much to recomme ...
- iPhone Apps Sending Out Devices' Serial Numbers, Log-In Data
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 5, 2010
The majority of the most popular applications available for iPhones use t ...