- DMA Says Complaints Show Confusion About Ad Targeting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Consumers don't accurately distinguish between behaviorally targeted ads and other types ...
- Meltwater, AP Settle Differences, Form Partnership
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Associated Press and online aggregator Meltwater have agreed to put asi ...
- Attorneys General Want To Prosecute Web Companies For Users' Posts
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 31, 2013
A coalition of 47 state attorneys general says the law should ...
- Internet Trade Group Sides With EBay Against Deaf User
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 29, 2013
A trade group representing Amazon, Facebook, Google and other Web companies sa ...
- Pinterest Won't Collect Data When Users Turn On Do-Not-Track
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Pinterest, like the microblogging service Twitter, has promised to stop collecting da ...
- PulsePoint To Pay $1 Million For Safari Hack
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 26, 2013
The online ad exchange PulsePoint has agreed to pay $1 million ...
- Viacom Asks Appeals Court To Reinstate YouTube Case
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 29, 2013
In the latest chapter of its long-running feud with YouTube, Viacom ...
- PointRoll Settles 'Safari Hack' Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 25, 2013
PointRoll has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from allegations th ...
- Facebook User Wants The Supreme Court To Nix Beacon Settlement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 26, 2013
It's been nearly six years since Facebook's first foray into social advertisin ...
- DAA Mobile Privacy Rules Require Opt-In Consent For Address Books, Geolocation
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The self-regulatory group Digital Advertising Alliance on Wednesday unveiled its long-awaited mobi ...
- Mozilla Seeks To Share Firefox Users' Info With Publishers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 25, 2013
Mozilla is planning to roll out a system that will enable publishe ...
- Hulu Argues Video Privacy Law Doesn't Cover 'Anonymous' Information
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Hulu argues in new court papers that it does not violate ...
- Hulu Tried To Mask Users By Storing IDs In Plain Sight
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Hulu's video offerings have always been impressive, but the company's former priva ...
- Digital Advertising Alliance Issues Mobile Privacy Rules
Raw, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The self-regulatory group Digital Advertising Alliance today is unveiling its long-awaited n ...
- Google To Settle 'Data Leakage' Case For $8.5 Million
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2013
Google has agreed to donate $8.5 million to nonprofit organizations in ord ...
- Report: New England Has Speediest Broadband In U.S.
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Broadband speeds are growing in the U.S., but still lag behind spee ...
- Aereo Says Hearst Lawsuit Belongs In New York
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 19, 2013
Online video company Aereo says the new copyright lawsuit filed against ...
- FTC Settles With 'Free iPhone' Spammer, Suspends $60,000 Fine
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2013
A Georgia resident who allegedly sent millions of people deceptive SMS messag ...
- Cell Phone Unlocking Bill Gets Consumer-Friendly Rewrite
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2013
The House Judiciary Committee recently took up a bill that would ma ...
- Google Settles Vanity-Searcher's Class-Action Lawsuit For $8.5 Million
Raw, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 22, 2013
Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it leak ...
- Study: Commerce Department App Privacy Proposal Confuses Consumers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 18, 2013
A privacy proposal calling for mobile app developers to provide consumers wi ...
- Web Standards Group Will Miss July Deadline For Do-Not-Track Proposal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 19, 2013
Last November, when former Obama administration official Peter Swire was named co-cha ...
- Judge Sides With Instagram In Dispute About Terms Of Service
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 17, 2013
A federal judge has dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that Instagr ...
- Authors Guild Warns Of 'Dark Underbelly Of Mass Digitization'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 18, 2013
The Authors Guild, which is battling the book storage project HathiTrust ...
- Court Rejects Request To Reconsider Pro-Aereo Decision
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday refused to grant ...
- Companies To Develop Privacy Standards For Tracking Brick-And-Mortar Shoppers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Technology companies that track consumers as they shop in brick-and-mortar stores wi ...
- Privacy Group: Jay-Z's Samsung App Unfair To Consumers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 17, 2013
One million Samsung Galaxy users had an opportunity earlier this month ...
- NebuAd Partner Wins Key Battle In Privacy Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 15, 2013
A federal appellate panel has sided with the Internet service provider Bresn ...
- Ad Industry Hints It Will Ignore W3C's Do-Not-Track Recommendation
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Internet standards group World Wide Web Consortium has unequivocally rejected t ...
- Appeals Court Questions Merchants, Yelp In 'Payola' Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, July 14, 2013
Merchants seeking to revive their "extortion" lawsuit against the Yelp faced so ...