- Spokeo Violates Federal Consumer Protection Law, Group Alleges
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Online data aggregator and broker Spokeo, which offers detailed financial reports abo ...
- More Users Challenge Facebook Beacon Settlement
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Facebook's $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from the Beac ...
- Study: Mobile Social Networks Leak Private Info
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Last summer, two researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and AT&T Labs report ...
- ClearSight Launches Targeting Platform Tying IP Addresses To Offline Data
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 28, 2010
The start-up ClearSight Interactive on Monday launched a new behavioral targeting platfo ...
- Knology Wins Round In Lawsuit Linking It To NebuAd
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 25, 2010
The Internet service provider Knology has won a round in a potenti ...
- Facebook Poaches White House Advisor
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 25, 2010
Bolstering its policy team, Facebook just hired Marne Levine, chief of sta ...
- Facebook's Beacon Settlement Appealed By Privacy Advocate
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 24, 2010
Facebook user and privacy advocate Ginger McCall, who objected to a class-acti ...
- ACLU Asks Court To Declare Amazon Records Confidential
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 25, 2010
Cecil Bothwell, a public official in Asheville, N.C., says he has ...
- After Twitter, Is Facebook Next On FTC's Privacy Agenda?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 24, 2010
Turns out the Federal Trade Commission has spent much of the la ...
- Facebook Differs with Social Network Bill of Rights
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, June 24, 2010
Amid growing controversy over privacy breaches and new marketing initiatives from Facebo ...
- The Google Privacy Plot Thickens
Search & Performance Insider, Rob Garner - Wednesday, June 23, 2010
If my last column -- titled "Could This Be Google's Privacy Moment ...
- Apple Tests Location Data Collection, Consumers' Patience
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Further testing consumers' patience over privacy and personal information sharing, Apple ...
- European Officials Calls For Updated Rules For BT
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Officials in Europe and the U.S. indicated this week that online ...
- States To Probe Google Data Gathering
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, June 21, 2010
A "significant number" of U.S. states will be conducting an investigation in ...
- French Group Finds Improper Google Data Gathering
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, June 21, 2010
Google gathered sensitive data, including user passwords, when putting together its Stre ...
- Facebook Sued Again Over Allegedly Leaking Information To Advertisers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 18, 2010
Facebook was hit with another lawsuit this week alleging that it improper ...
- Conn. AG To Lead Probe Of Google's Payload Data Mistake
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 21, 2010
The fallout from Google's WiFi spying scandal seems to be worsening f ...
- The Implications Of 'Digital Courage' For Marketing
Engage:Millennials, Morgan Stewart - Friday, June 18, 2010
Customer service issues that crop up in social media point to earli ...
- Does Online Privacy Legislation Mean a Substantial Shift in the Interactive Media Landscape?
Online Media Daily, Aaron Reinitz - Friday, June 18, 2010
With the early May introduction of the Boucher-Stearns Online Privacy Act, ...
- Senators Bullish On Cybersecurity Bill
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Recently unveiled cybersecurity legislation is likely pass the Senate this year, accordi ...
- Please, Mr. Zuckerberg: Advocates' Requests Include Better Privacy, Data Export
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 16, 2010
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU of Northern California and eight other advoca ...
- 'I Know Where You Work': Blogger Fired For Contacting 'Anonymous' Commenters
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 14, 2010
Blogger Zachery Kouwe, ousted from The New York Times for plagiarizing fr ...
- FCC Gets Tough On E-Security, Privacy
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 11, 2010
In addition to the FBI's investigation into the Apple/AT&T iPad security breac ...
- Google: WiFi Data Collection Was Lawful
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 11, 2010
Google says that collecting personal data from unsecured wireless networks was ...
- Facebook Privacy Went From Bad To Worse, Claims Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Recent revisions that Facebook made to its privacy settings not only didn ...
- Could This Be Google's Privacy Moment?
Search & Performance Insider, Rob Garner - Wednesday, June 9, 2010
About two weeks ago, Google refused a German request for WiFi da ...
- Industry Group: Boucher Bill Violates First Amendment
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 8, 2010
NetChoice, an industry coalition that includes AOL, eBay, News Corp and Yaho ...
- IAB: Boucher Bill Strikes At 'Heart And Soul Of Today's Internet Offerings'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Saturday, June 5, 2010
Potential privacy legislation being floated by Rep. Rick Boucher "would fundamentally chan ...
- CDT Recommends Rewrite For Boucher Bill
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 7, 2010
The nonprofit group Center for Democracy & Technology says that a priva ...
- Pols (Including Ex-Privacy Head) Scold Facebook
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, June 4, 2010
The
Los Angeles Times looks into what it suspects is t ...