- 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 ...
- Lawmaker: Sale Of Borders' Customer Lists Shows 'Urgent' Need For Privacy Laws
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 4, 2011
A bankruptcy judge's decision to allow Barnes & Noble to purchase da ...
- Sour Note: Pandora Sued For Violating Privacy, Via Facebook Integration
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 30, 2011
A lawsuit charges that Pandora's integration with Facebook allowed the music compa ...
- Class-Action Lawyers Accuse Facebook Of Tracking Logged-Out Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 3, 2011
Facebook has been hit with two separate potential class-action lawsuits alleging th ...
- Facebook 'Bug' Prompts Lawmakers To Seek FTC Probe
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Revelations this week that Facebook received data about users' Web-surfing activity, ev ...
- Advocates: Facebook Violated Privacy Policy By Tracking Logged-Out Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 29, 2011
A coalition of digital rights groups are asking the Federal Trade Commissi ...
- Making A Living On The Privacy Fault Line
Publishing Insider, Ari Rosenberg - Thursday, September 29, 2011
One summer I earned money by knocking on the front doors ...
- Is 'WSJ' 'Greedy' And 'Hypocritical' When It Comes To Online Privacy?
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Jeff Sonderman reports on two tweets reacting to The Wall Street Journal ...
- Lawmakers Ask FTC To Investigate 'Supercookies'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Two senior lawmakers are condemning new "supercookie" technology, which can be us ...
- Spotify And Facebook: An Example Of When It Should Be OK Not to Share
Social Media Insider, Catharine P. Taylor - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
It is a sign of the times, I suppose, that within t ...
- Facebook Fixes Privacy 'Bug' Affecting Logged-Out Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Given the company's history of privacy flaps, it shouldn't surprise anyone th ...
- Post-Google Buzz: Has Google+ Gotten Privacy Right?
Online Media Daily, Vejay G. Lalla - Monday, September 26, 2011
The key aspect of Google+ that distinguishes it from Google Buzz ...