- Most Popular Sites Reserve Right To Sell Users' Data If Company Changes Hands
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 29, 2015
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Hulu are among the Web compani ...
- Privacy Friendly Search Engine DuckDuckGo Sees Spike In Traffic
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 26, 2015
Search engine DuckDuckGo, which touts itself as privacy-friendly, now accounts for mo ...
- Broadband Privacy Rules Coming Soon, FCC Chairman Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 26, 2015
The Federal Communications Commission intends to move forward with new privacy rul ...
- Facebook Taps Yahoo Exec To Head Security
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, June 25, 2015
Facebook admires Yahoo's security system -- so much so that the soci ...
- Apple's iOS9 Will Block Apps' Access To Other Apps
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 25, 2015
Apple's upcoming iOS 9 reportedly will prevent apps from learning what oth ...
- Harlem Globetrotters' Site Violated Children's Privacy Guidelines, BBB Says
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 25, 2015
The Harlem Globetrotters has agreed to change its method of collecting informati ...
- Consumers Urge Appellate Court To Turn Away Yahoo
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 24, 2015
A group of consumers want a federal appellate court to reject Yahoo ...
- New ICANN Proposal Could Curb Anonymous Blogging
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm about an Internet Corporation for Assign ...
- Amazon To Pay Some Authors Based On Pages Read
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Amazon will start paying some authors based on the number of pag ...
- Turn Hit With New 'Supercookie' Lawsuit
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Ad company Turn has been hit with a second lawsuit stemming fr ...
- Comcast Must Unmask Commenter Accused Of Defamation
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2015
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Comcast must unmask an anonymo ...
- Google And Viacom Oppose Nick.com Users' Bid To Revive Privacy Battle
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2015
A group of Web users under 13 have no grounds to revi ...
- FTC Should Prevent Uber From Collecting 'Unnecessary' Information, Watchdog Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 22, 2015
Uber's "history of abusing the location data of its customers" should sp ...
- Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon Fall On EFF Privacy Ratings
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 19, 2015
Google slipped in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) privacy ratings for t ...
- Facebook Won't Launch Moments Photo App In Europe
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 19, 2015
Facebook won't launch its Moments photo app in Europe due to priva ...
- Sourcepoint Industry Vets Change The Future Of Ad Monetization For Publishers
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 18, 2015
Admeld Founder Ben Barokas, former LiveRail COO Brian Kane, former AppNexus C ...
- Shutterfly Sued For Creating 'Faceprint' Database
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 18, 2015
An Illinois resident has sued online photo service Shutterfly for allegedly violati ...
- Reddit Jumps On Wagon To Encrypt By Default
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 17, 2015
On a message board, Reddit announced that it would soon start encrypti ...
- Amazon Touts Privacy Record
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Amazon recently published its first “transparency report,” which says that the compa ...
- Civil Rights Groups Flustered Over Facial Recognition
Around the Net In Media, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 16, 2015
After failing to agree on guidelines for the fair commercial use ...
- Privacy Advocates And Industry Unable To Agree On Rules For Faceprints
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 16, 2015
In December of 2013, the National Telecommunications Information Administration announced an ambitio ...
- Belgian Privacy Regulators Sue Facebook
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 15, 2015
The Belgian Privacy Commission will sue Facebook this Thursday for allegedly violati ...
- Consumers Oppose Turn's Bid To Send 'Supercookie' Battle To Arbitration
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 15, 2015
Consumers who are suing Turn for allegedly tracking them with "supercookies" creat ...
- FCC Urged To Impose Privacy Rules On Web Publishers, Ad Networks
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 15, 2015
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog wants the Federal Communications Commission to regula ...
- French Watchdog Says Google Should Expand Right To Be Forgotten
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 12, 2015
France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés said Friday it issu ...
- LinkedIn To Pay $13 Million To Settle Battle Over Email Invites
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 12, 2015
LinkedIn has agreed to pay $13 million to resolve a class-action lawsu ...
- And The Hypocrisy Tony Goes To... Apple's Tim Cook
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Thursday, June 11, 2015
The 68th annual Tony Awards, established to celebrate excellence in the theate ...
- What If Brands Could Serve Ads From A Personal Computer?
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 11, 2015
A research paper that recently resurfaced, penned by Saikat Guha, senior scienti ...
- Yahoo Wants Appeals Court To Block Privacy Class-Action
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 11, 2015
Yahoo wants an appellate court to block consumers from bringing a class-acti ...
- New Bill Would Prevent Behavioral Targeting Of Young Teens
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 11, 2015
Five lawmakers in the House and Senate have reintroduced the "Do N ...