- Consumers Don't Understand Opt-Out Tools
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2011
In a new critique of the ad industry's self-regulatory efforts, researchers ...
- Lawmakers To Facebook: Why Keep 'Likes,' Chats, Deleted Posts?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2011
Austrian law student Max Schrems recently asked Facebook to turn over informati ...
- Rockefeller Asks Credit Card Companies About Behavioral Targeting Plans
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 28, 2011
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, head of the Senate Commerce Committee, is questioning Vi ...
- Anti-Piracy Bill Unveiled In House
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Lawmakers in the House have introduced a controversial new measure aimed ...
- New California Privacy Bill Raises Questions About Bloggers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Civil rights group cheered this month when California Governor Jerry Brown sign ...
- ComScore Loses Bid To Transfer Privacy Case To Virginia
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 24, 2011
Consumers who are suing comScore for allegedly duping them into installing monitori ...
- Web Companies, Privacy Advocates Weigh In On Supreme Court Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 21, 2011
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case is drawing the attention of W ...
- Netflix Challenges Video Privacy Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 20, 2011
Faced with a potential multimillion-dollar class-action privacy lawsuit for allegedly retaining people ...
- Senator: Public Policy Hasn't Kept Up With Technology
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 20, 2011
The head of the Senate Commerce Committee has asked the Federal Tra ...
- Google Spotlights Online Privacy
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sean Parker might not think privacy is important to Web users ...
- University Study Highlights Tracking Leak
Data and Targeting Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Stanford University computer scientist Jonathan Mayer released a paper recently highlighting t ...
- Public More Worried About Privacy Loss Than Terrorism
MediaDailyNews, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, October 18, 2011
A new study from McCann-Erickson has found that people around the glo ...
- Study: Most Consumers Know They're Tracked Online
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Online behavioral advertising might have been an obscure topic a few yea ...
- Google Launches Security Campaign In UK
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 17, 2011
Google has launched a campaign to increase awareness of online security threa ...
- Amazon Sued For Publishing Actress's Real Age
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 17, 2011
An actress is suing Amazon for allegedly using information from her cred ...
- Mobile Marketing Assn. Issues App Privacy Guidelines
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Monday, October 17, 2011
Smartphone apps have come under growing scrutiny in the last year wi ...
- Google To Stop Leaking Search Queries To Publishers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 18, 2011
In a move with significant privacy implications, Google said today that ...
- Second Look: Stanford Research On Digital Information
Online Media Daily, Alan Chapell - Monday, October 17, 2011
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford just issued research abo ...
- Appeals Court Questions Facebook's Beacon Settlement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 17, 2011
One of Facebook's biggest privacy debacles was also its first major for ...
- Markey Questions Amazon About Silk Browser's Tracking Feature
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 14, 2011
Lawmakers are raising concerns about Amazon's new Kindle Fire, which comes wi ...
- FrostWire Settles With FTC Over Privacy Default Settings
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, t ...
- House Panel Paves Way For Netflix-Facebook Integration
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 13, 2011
Netflix scored a victory in the House today, when the Judiciary Committ ...
- Web Sites Share Users Identity
Around the Net in Online Marketing - Top of the News, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A Stanford University grad student is sounding the alarm on Web priva ...
- Publishers Leak Usernames, IDs To Third Parties
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Despite promising that they won't reveal users' personal data, some of t ...
- Privacy Experts Urge Lawmakers To Address Ethics Of Behavioral Targeting
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Privacy bills that would regulate online behavioral targeting are pending on t ...
- FTC Chair: 'Cyberazzi' Compile 'Astonishingly Complete' Profiles
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 11, 2011
FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz coined a new word today: Cyberazzi. What a ...
- Facebook Hit With 5 Lawsuits For Tracking Logged-Out Users
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 7, 2011
Facebook was hit this week with three new potential class-action lawsuits stemmi ...
- Great American Lies
Online Media Daily, George Simpson - Friday, October 7, 2011
An AP story this week said that despite persistent vows by America ...
- Lawmakers Question Verizon's Ad Targeting
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 6, 2011
A new Verizon initiative to allow marketers to target ads based ...
- Facebook Faces More Snooping Accusations
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 5, 2011
For the second time in two weeks, Facebook is confronting allegations th ...