- AP Promises To Heed Do-Not-Track Header
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Associated Press has decided to honor Firefox's new do-not-track header acro ...
- Judge Okays Spam Case For Fraudulent Facebook Pages
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 31, 2011
The federal anti-spam law applies not only to ads sent to in-boxe ...
- Buzz: FTC Charges Google With Deceptive Practices
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 30, 2011
In what's being hailed as its biggest privacy action in almost ...
- FTC Pushes Back On Privacy Policy Changes
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 31, 2011
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had reach ...
- LinkedIn Sued For Privacy Violations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Social-networking site LinkedIn has been sued for violating users' privacy by alleged ...
- Study: Glitches, Inconsistencies Abound In Targeting Opt-Outs
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 30, 2011
For more than 10 years, online ad companies have said that use ...
- Google Settles With FTC Over Buzz Debacle
Raw, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Google has agreed to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission stemmi ...
- Payola Lawsuit Against Yelp Dismissed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 28, 2011
A federal judge has dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit against Yelp, allegi ...
- Righthaven Files -- Then Withdraws -- Bogus Case Against Journalist
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Lest there was any doubt that copyright enforcement company Righthaven is ...
- Judge: Photobucket Need Not Prevent Infringement By Users
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 25, 2011
A photographer is not entitled to an injunction ordering the photo-sharing si ...
- Do Users Read Privacy Policies? Answer Could Help Decide Wilkileaks/Twitter Case
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 28, 2011
If every U.S. Web user read the privacy policy at every si ...
- Yahoo, Microsoft Win Spam-Filtering Lawsuits
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 24, 2011
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits against Yahoo and Microsoft by t ...
- FTC Official: Cases Against Twitter, Chitika Provide Roadmap To Privacy Enforcement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 25, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission seems to have stepped up its privacy enforceme ...
- Kerry Privacy Bill Could Impose 'Major' Obligations On Ad Networks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 23, 2011
A draft of privacy legislation floated by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) wou ...
- Report: Fewer Web Users Getting Music From P2P Networks
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 24, 2011
Just 9% of Web users downloaded music over peer-to-peer networks last quarte ...
- Groupon Sued For False Advertising On Google
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A San Francisco tour company has sued Groupon for false advertising f ...
- Lawmaker: Make Net Neutrality A Condition Of AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 23, 2011
When AT&T made the stunning announcement on Sunday that it planned ...
- Court: Posting Entire News Article Was Fair Use
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 21, 2011
In a major setback for copyright enforcement company Righthaven, a judge h ...
- Google Books Deal Scuttled By Judge
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 22, 2011
A federal judge today nixed the deal between Google and book publishe ...
- BT: Not Honorable Enough To Be Called Science
Raw, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Why does targeting online seem so different than targeting offline, MediaPost's J ...
- Judge Greenlights Lawsuit For False Impersonation On Twitter
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, March 19, 2011
An employer who allegedly Tweeted under an employee's name potentially faces liabili ...
- Google's Street View Cleared In Germany
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 21, 2011
Google has just received mixed news about Street View from European authoritie ...
- Close-Up: Netflix Hit With Privacy Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 17, 2011
Netflix has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly breaki ...
- FCC Approves Qwest-Century Link Merger As Boon For Broadband
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 18, 2011
Touting the deal as a boon for broadband, the Federal Communications Commissi ...
- Coalition Of Online Ad Companies Urges Support For Firefox Do-Not-Track Headers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 17, 2011
When Mozilla said last year that it was going to include ...
- Privacy Backlash Spurs Etsy To Revise New Social-Networking Feature
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Faced with accusations that it violated users' privacy, online marketplace Etsy retreat ...
- FTC Clamps Down On Deceptive Opt-Out Cookies
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 14, 2011
Signaling its concern about privacy and online advertising, the Federal Trade Commissi ...
- Commerce's Strickling To Say Administration Supports Baseline Privacy Regs
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Microsoft has added another privacy feature to Internet Explorer 9: A do-not-tra ...
- Specific Media Asks Court To Dismiss Flash-Cookie Tracking Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 11, 2011
The ad network Specific Media says that a lawsuit accusing it ...
- AT&T To Start Bandwith Caps In May
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 14, 2011
AT&T, the country's second-largest Internet service provider, intends to start imposing month ...