- Report: Facebook's Tracking Cookies Violate EU Law
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Facebook violates Europe's privacy law by placing tracking cookies on users w ...
- Smartphone User Presses Claim That Android IDs Can Identify Users
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 30, 2015
A smartphone user is seeking to revive a claim that the Carto ...
- Big Data Analytics And Fitbit May Find Their Way Into Courtrooms
Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Monday, March 30, 2015
You are the cookie now, and this has big implications we a ...
- FCC To Consider Privacy Protections For Broadband Users
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 30, 2015
It's no secret that broadband providers would like to draw on the ...
- Google Can't Shake Safari-Hack Lawsuit In U.K.
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 27, 2015
Safari users in the United Kingdom can sue Google for allegedly circumventi ...
- Tech Companies Ask White House To End NSA Surveillance
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 26, 2015
Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and Apple asked the White House ...
- FTC Members Deny Ignoring Google's Search Practices
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, March 26, 2015
Members of the FTC are denying media reports that the agency a ...
- LinkedIn Settles Battle Over Email Invites
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 26, 2015
LinkedIn has agreed to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misappropriati ...
- Apple, Developers Must Face Privacy Lawsuit Over Address-Book Uploads
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Apple will have to face a privacy lawsuit by a group ...
- Texas AG Challenges RadioShack Plan To Auction Off Email Addresses
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 24, 2015
The bankrupt RadioShack wants to auction off its customers' personal information, includi ...
- Lawmakers Set To Unveil Student Privacy Bill
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 23, 2015
Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Luke Messer (R-Ind.) are expected to introdu ...
- FTC Creates New Office To Examine Internet Of Things, Big Data, Other Emerging Tech
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 23, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission is beefing up its technological expertise in ord ...
- One In Three Americans Changed Online Behavior Because Of Surveillance
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Monday, March 23, 2015
The revelations of widespread government surveillance by NSA contractor Edward Snowden m ...
- Chat To Your CIO About Customer Data Security Or Face A 100m Euro Fine -- The Choice Is Yours
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 20, 2015
As marketers plan for the year of the Data Management Platform, it ...
- Microsoft's GroupMe Faces Appeal In Text-Spam Case
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 19, 2015
A consumer is appealing a decision that cleared Microsoft's group-messaging app Group ...
- Pearson Monitored Students' Social Media To Detect Cheating
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, March 19, 2015
Education giant Pearson, the world's largest publisher of textbooks, has been routine ...
- Yahoo Opposes Class-Action In Email Privacy Battle
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Yahoo is asking a judge to deny class-action status to a gro ...
- TRUSTe Finalizes Settlement With FTC
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2015
TRUSTe has finalized a settlement requiring it to pay $200,000 for alleged ...
- Experts @SXSW Ask If Privacy By Design Makes A Company More Likeable
Data and Targeting Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Large companies like General Motors and Sony have a slew of exper ...
- The Right To Be Forgotten Is 'Complete Disaster,' Law Prof Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The EU's right to be forgotten addresses the genuine concern that peop ...
- FTC To Tackle Cross-Device Targeting
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop in November examining priva ...
- Google Error Leaks Personal Owner Info For Several Thousand Sites
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 13, 2015
A Google software issue revealed that the whois database containing the conta ...
- Intel Uses Supply-Chain Practices To Integrate Beacons In Retail Marketing
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 13, 2015
Intel is taking its knowledge of supply chain manufacturing techniques and applyi ...
- NSA Surveillance Spurs Americans To Delete Apps, Curb Email Use
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 16, 2015
Web users have curtailed their use of social networking services, apps, ema ...
- Pediatricians Warn Against 'Sharenting'
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Monday, March 16, 2015
As a new father, I get the impulse to share everything yo ...
- Twitter Forbids Revenge Porn Postings
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, March 12, 2015
Twitter this week took further steps to make users feel safe a ...
- 'Guardian' Walks Back Whisper Allegations
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Friday, March 13, 2015
Last year the social media universe was set all aTwitter by ...
- Newspaper Walks Back Claims That Whisper Violates Users' Privacy
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 12, 2015
Last year, the U.K. paper The Guardian made headlines with an artic ...
- Consumers Conflicted About Privacy Vs. Personalization
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Accenture reports that overall, about 60% of consumers want real-time promotions a ...
- FCC Turns Attention To Online Privacy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 12, 2015
For many years, the Federal Trade Commission has policed privacy violations ...