- Verizon Wants 'Supercookie' Case Sent To Arbitration
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 29, 2015
Verizon is backing ad company Turn's request that a privacy lawsuit involvi ...
- Useful Vs. Creepy: The Jury Is Still Out
Online Media Daily, George Simpson - Thursday, May 28, 2015
Serving "the right ad, to the right person, at the right tim ...
- With Home Address Identification, Reveelz Takes Targeting Too Far
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, May 29, 2015
As ads become more and more ubiquitous, and as advertisers become mo ...
- Tech Companies, App Developers Oppose FTC's Privacy Settlement With Nomi
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 28, 2015
Trade groups representing tech companies and app developers say they are oppos ...
- German Privacy Watchdog Convinces Five Companies To Remove 'Like' Button
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Five German companies -- Nivea, travel site HRS, ticket seller Eventim, a ...
- Yahoo Must Face Privacy Class-Action For Scanning Emails
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 27, 2015
In a blow to Yahoo, a federal judge has ruled that t ...
- Cox Ordered To Identify 250 Suspected Music Downloaders
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A federal judge has ordered Cox Communications to reveal the identifies ...
- Israeli Startup Develops Foolproof Ad Addressability, Uses Your Actual Address
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
A potentially disruptive new technology developed by an Israeli start-up takes t ...
- Most People Don't Understand 'AdChoices' Icon
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Advertisers, agencies and publishers serve the AdChoices icon more than 1 trilli ...
- Mozilla To Let Advertisers Target Firefox Users Based On Browsing History
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 21, 2015
Mozilla today is unveiling its "Suggested Tiles" ad platform, which allows markete ...
- FCC Warns Broadband Providers To Follow 'Core Tenets' Of Privacy Protections
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 21, 2015
Broadband providers might want to draw on data about subscribers' Web activi ...
- Franken Seeks Investigation Of Mobile Spying App
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn,) has asked the Federal Trade Commission and t ...
- Turn Asks Judge To Send 'Supercookie' Lawsuit To Arbitration
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Ad company Turn is asking a federal judge to send a lawsu ...
- Most People Doubt Web Companies Will Keep Data Private
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Many Americans doubt that data about their Web activity will be ke ...
- Third-Party Data 'Inherently Challenging'
Show Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Drawing on “third-party” data for ad-targeting is problematic, given that many ...
- Tech Giants Urge Obama To Protect Consumer Privacy
Around the Net in Mobile, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Apple, Google and other tech giants are urging the Obama administration ...
- Facebook Facing Chorus Of Critics Over Internet.org
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Facebook is facing a growing chorus of critics over its Internet.org initiativ ...
- NAI Issues Privacy Guidelines For Digital Fingerprinting, Other Non-Cookie Ad Technology
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Online ad tech companies that track consumers with digital fingerprints or oth ...
- FTC Weighs In On Sale Of RadioShack Customer Lists
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 18, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission is asking a bankruptcy judge to protect t ...
- Why DuckDuckGo?
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 15, 2015
It's really a matter of opinion. "What does DuckDuckGo search have ...
- Belgium Commission Accuses Facebook Of Privacy Negligence
Around the Net In Social Media & Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, May 15, 2015
Belgium’s Privacy Commission is accusing Facebook of treating users’ personal data “wi ...
- BBB Privacy Punishment Could Help, Not Harm, Etsy And Others
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, May 15, 2015
On the face of it, yesterday's announcement by the Better Business Bure ...
- BBB Privacy Unit Faults Etsy, Three Other Publishers
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 14, 2015
The Web companies Etsy, Imgur, TWiT.tv, and 247 Sports have agreed ...
- Google Rejects Most 'Right To Forget' Requests
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 13, 2015
In the year since the European Court of Justice ruled that sear ...
- Wearables Gaining Customer Favour, Privacy Concerns Remain
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, May 13, 2015
A new global study has shown that seven in 10 global consume ...
- Verizon's AOL Deal Has Privacy Advocates Worried
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Among other implications, Verizon’s planned merger with AOL is raising consumer priva ...
- Ad Industry Opposes Illinois Data Breach Bill
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 12, 2015
A proposed data breach bill in Illinois would create "unnecessary compliance burden ...
- Verizon's Takeover Of AOL Raises 'Urgent Privacy Concerns,' Advocacy Group Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Verizon's proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of AOL gives the Federal Communications Commissi ...
- 74% of Mobile Shoppers Fine with Not Being Identified in a Store
MobileShopTalk, Chuck Martin - Monday, May 11, 2015
The challenges in serving mobile shoppers are almost too numerous to coun ...
- White House Taps Privacy Expert Ed Felten For Key Role
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 11, 2015
The White House has tapped Princeton's Ed Felten to join the Offi ...