- HealthCare.gov Will Honor Do-Not-Track Requests
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 12, 2015
The White House's health insurance site HealthCare.gov is now honoring do-not-track header ...
- Hacker 'Weev' Outs Prosecutors With Ashley Madison Accounts
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 9, 2015
Hacker Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer, who was prosecuted for allegedly violating the Comput ...
- White House Won't Force Tech Companies To Install 'Backdoors'
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 9, 2015
The Obama administration has decided against asking Congress to pass legislation requiri ...
- Appellate Court Won't Stop Sheriff From Lobbying Against Backpage
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 9, 2015
Siding against Backpage, a federal appellate court on Thursday refused to temporari ...
- Turn Wants Web Standards Group To Re-Think 'Do Not Track'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 9, 2015
Ad company Turn is asking the Internet standards group World Wide W ...
- Google Fiber Delayed In Arizona
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 8, 2015
Cox Communications' lawsuit against the city of Tempe, Arizona has delayed Scottsdale ...
- Verizon Hikes Price Of Unlimited Data
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 8, 2015
Verizon mobile customers who still have unlimited data plans will soon s ...
- Sen. Franken Raises Concerns About Charter-Time Warner Deal
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 8, 2015
Regulators should scrutinize how Charter's proposed $67 billion merger with Time Warn ...
- Verizon Revises Behavioral Targeting Program, But Privacy Concerns Persist
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 8, 2015
Verizon Wireless has narrowed a controversial ad-targeting program that relies on "supercookies ...
- Senate Democrats Oppose Effort To Block Net Neutrality Rules
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) say they will oppo ...
- Experian Data Breach Shows Need For Cybersecurity Laws, Senators Say
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Experian's recent data breach, which may have exposed the social security numbe ...
- Lawmakers Call For Stronger Do-Not-Track Standards
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Three lawmakers say in a letter to the W3C that its propos ...
- Portland Preps For Google Fiber
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Prepping for the arrival of Google's 1 GB fiber network, Portland wi ...
- EU Scraps Cross-Border Privacy Agreement, Imperils Thousands Of US Businesses
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Europe's highest court on Tuesday invalidated a 15-year-old agreement that enabled compani ...
- California Attorney General Forces Silicon Valley Startup To Hire Privacy Chief
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Cementing her reputation as a privacy hawk, California Attorney General Kamala Harr ...
- Massachusetts Town Launches 1GB Fiber Network
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2015
The town of Leverett, Massachusetts has launched a new 1 GB fiberopt ...
- Mayors Criticize Verizon For Lagging On FiOS
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2015
Mayors in 13 cities including New York, Pittsburgh, and Newark criticize Veriz ...
- LinkedIn Users Should Get New Notices About Class-Action Settlement, Law Prof Says
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2015
Notices sent to LinkedIn users about a
proposed $13 million class-acti ...
- Spokeo Urges Supreme Court To Reject White House, Dismiss Suit About Errors
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 2, 2015
Firing back against the White House, online data aggregator Spokeo says t ...
- Yahoo Wins Round In Text-Spam Battle
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2015
Yahoo won't have to face a class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating ...
- Yelp-For-People App Revamps After Backlash
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 5, 2015
Faced with widespread criticism, Peeple co-founder Julia Corday writes on LinkedIn th ...
- Is People-Rating App Peeple A Hoax?
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 2, 2015
The upcoming app Peeple, which will enable users to "rate" other peopl ...
- Yelp-For-People App Raises Questions
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 2, 2015
The Washington Post recently introduced the world to the forthcoming app Peepl ...
- Civil Suits Against Megaupload Delayed
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Lawsuits filed by the entertainment industry against the cyberlocker service Megaupload ha ...
- Ad Blockers Improve Load Times, Cut Down On Data Consumption
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Ad-blocking apps for the iPhone significantly improved load times and cut do ...
- Alabama, Michigan And Other States Argue For Right To Curb Muni-Broadband
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Officials from 11 states are siding with North Carolina and Tennessee ...
- Net Neutrality Rules Prevent Censorship, Law Prof Argues
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 1, 2015
Without net neutrality rules, grassroots protests against laws like the defeated St ...