- Consumers Revise Lawsuit About iPhone Tracking
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Late last year, Apple was hit with a flurry of lawsuits ov ...
- Web User Who Taunted Politico's Son Remains Anonymous
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 18, 2011
In a sweeping opinion, an appellate court in Illinois has ruled th ...
- Self-Regulatory Group Taps FTC Official For Executive Director
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 17, 2011
The self-regulatory group Network Advertising Initiative has tapped Federal Trade Commission offici ...
- Amazon: Actress Has No Legal Right To Conceal Age
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 17, 2011
A 40-year-old actress who says she looks "many years" younger than h ...
- Court Rejects Bid To Unmask "Art of Living" Critic
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A blogger who helped create sites that criticized the organization Art ...
- Rockefeller To Question Facebook About 'Alarming' Privacy Report
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Sen. Jay Rockefeller said today he intended to summon Facebook to ...
- Privacy Lawsuit Against LinkedIn Dismissed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 14, 2011
A judge has handed LinkedIn a victory in a lawsuit alleging th ...
- Social Network Skid-e-Kids Settles Privacy Charges With FTC
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A social-networking service for children will delete information collected from pre-teens ...
- FTC's Leibowitz: Apply Some Marketing Sense to Your Privacy Policy
Online Spin, Dave Morgan - Thursday, November 10, 2011
Have you ever found a privacy policy that was as easy ...
- Report: Facebook To Seek Users' Consent To Future Privacy Changes
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 10, 2011
Facebook will agree to seek users' express consent before making any chang ...
- FTC Accuses Video Ad Network Of Using Flash Cookies For Tracking
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 8, 2011
In a first, the Federal Trade Commission has charged an ad netwo ...
- Leibowitz Praises DAA, But Wants Networks To Honor Do-Not-Track Headers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Earlier this year, the ad network Chitika settled charges that it misl ...
- New Self-Regulatory Principles Impose Limits On Tracking
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 7, 2011
The industry self-regulatory group Digital Advertising Alliance on Monday issued new principl ...
- Consumers Willing To Share Data, But At A Price
Research Brief, Jack Loechner - Friday, November 4, 2011
According to a new study by McCan Truth Central, consumers are concern ...
- USA Today On Privacy Problem With New Facebook Timeline
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Karl Greenberg - Thursday, November 3, 2011
Facebook's coming overhaul of its members' profile pages will more prominently sh ...
- Does Facebook Track 'Canceled' Accounts?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, November 3, 2011
A German privacy watchdog is questioning whether Facebook tracks users’ Web activi ...
- NJ Woman Prosecuted for Facebook ID Theft
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, November 3, 2011
Although there's been a lot of discussion about the potential for crimin ...
- EPIC Challenges Verizon Wireless's New Privacy Policy Verizon
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Wireless' recent decision to include a host of new data about consume ...
- 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 ...
- Why Google Targeted That Ad
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Trust could become the biggest factor separating Google from Facebook as t ...
- 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 ...