- Spokeo Wants Ruling On Privacy Allegations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Data aggregator Spokeo is trying to put the brakes on a priva ...
- Appellate Court Sides With Google Against TradeComet
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2011
An appellate court has handed Google a victory on a procedural iss ...
- 'Gmail Man' Snoops In Messages, Targets Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Consumer advocates have hoped for a long time that Web companies wou ...
- Franken: AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Threatens Net Neutrality
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sen. Al Franken, who is asking the government to block the propos ...
- Report Details How Trackers Can Learn Users' Names
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2011
Earlier this month, the Stanford Center for Internet & Society's Jonathan May ...
- Say Media Settles Flash Cookie Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Say Media will pay almost $1 million to settle a class-action lawsu ...
- GOP Senators Call For Financial Assessment Of Neutrality Regs
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Republicans in the Senate almost certainly don't have enough support from the ...
- Web Users Uneasy With Behavioral Targeting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
A sizable proportion of U.S. Web users are uncomfortable with online tracki ...
- Facebook, Connecticut A.G. Settle Differences Over Facial Recognition
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
When Facebook launched its facial recognition feature last month, the company spurr ...
- Turn Down The Volume: Judge Rejects Million-Dollar User Verdict
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 22, 2011
A jury's decision that a peer-to-peer user should pay the record indust ...
- Netflix: Privacy Law Prevents Facebook Integration
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
Netflix told shareholders today that a 23-year-old privacy law is "discouraging" ...
- Groupon Privacy Rules Draw Congressional Attention
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Groupon's recent changes to its privacy policy are drawing scrutiny on Capit ...
- Threatened With Suit, Newport Television Backs Down From YouTube Copyright Claim
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 22, 2011
Advocacy group Free Press recently launched a new initiative aimed at exposi ...
- Report: Epic Using 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Epic Marketplace is using history-sniffing techniques to collect information about users' W ...
- NAI To Probe Epic Marketplace's 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Several years ago, before renaming itself Epic Advertising, the online ad compa ...
- Appeals Court To Decide Whether Google Violated Wiretap Laws
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
A federal judge has granted Google's request to recommend that the 9 ...
- Can BT Companies Prove Anonymity?
Show Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
AOL's 'Data Valdez' often is held up as an example of h ...
- Privacy-Icon Rollout Hits Snags
Show Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
The rollout of you-are-being-targeted icons is hitting some snags, Steve Minichini, presiden ...
- Advocates: Marketers Need Teen Consent For Online Info
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 19, 2011
A coalition of health organizations and advocacy groups say that marketers shou ...
- Evidon Starts 'Certifying' Ad Network Clients
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 18, 2011
Evidon is rolling out a new program to "certify" some of i ...
- Righthaven Hit With Sanctions
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 18, 2011
Copyright enforcement company Righthaven is running into more roadblocks in court. La ...
- Waxman: Privacy Self-Regulation Not Working
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 14, 2011
The online ad industry's voluntary measures to protect consumers' privacy are falli ...
- Report: Ad Networks' Privacy Policies Still Problematic
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 15, 2011
Earlier this week, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer posted preliminary results of ...
- Classmates.com Agrees To $2.5M Class-Action Settlement
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A federal judge has tentatively approved a revised settlement of a class-acti ...
- Consumer Groups Urge FCC To Accept 'Broad Public Input'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 13, 2011
A broad coalition of 15 organizations is asking the FCC to all ...
- Advocates: Data Caps Undermine Broadband Plan
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 14, 2011
Earlier this week, blogger Andre Vrignaud posted an account of how ...
- Ad Networks Continue Tracking Users Who Opt Out
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Almost half of the companies that belong to the self-regulatory group Netwo ...
- Coventry Withdraws Lawsuit Against Twitter Critic
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Earlier this year, a Twitter user created an account devoted to parodyi ...
- MPAA Wins Preliminary Round Against Hotfile
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 11, 2011
A federal judge held that the Motion Picture Association of America ma ...
- Verizon Cracks Down On Tethering
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Now that Verizon has officially rolled out its new tiered pricing, t ...