- Amazon Alexa Listens, As Millions More Talk To It
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Right on the heels of information that police are seeking past voi ...
- What We'll Be Talking About In 2017
Social Media Insider, Thom Forbes - Thursday, December 29, 2016
Sources from different social-media arenas give us their takes on what wi ...
- Signal Messaging App Rolls Out Tool To Bypass Censors
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 23, 2016
Developers of the secure messaging app Signal have created a workaround ...
- Facebook Agrees To Settle Class-Action Over Message Scans
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 23, 2016
Facebook has agreed to resolve a battle with consumers who sued t ...
- Amazon Ordered To Disclose Customers' Names
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 22, 2016
U.S. District Court Judge James Robart ordered Amazon to turn over t ...
- EU Court Cuts Government Snooping Powers
Around the Net in Email, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The EU’s highest court just ruled that the “general and indiscriminate retention&rdqu ...
- UK Home Office Overruled By EU Over Snooping Laws
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The European Court of Justice has ruled against the UK government followi ...
- DMA To Fight EU Rules On B2B Email Permissions
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The EU Commission has proposed making business-to-business (B2B) marketing via electronic channe ...
- Home Office 'Disappointed' With EU Legal Defeat On Snooping Law
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The European Court of Justice has ruled against the UK government followi ...
- Facebook Charged With Misleading EU Regulators Over WhatsApp Takeover
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Facebook has been charged with misleading EU regulators over its $19bn (GBP15.4b ...
- Uber Should Give Users More Control Over Location Tracking, Lawmaker Says
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Senator Al Franken has asked Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to "restore user ...
- Oracle Petitions FCC To Reconsider Broadband Privacy Rules
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Software corporation Oracle says in a new FCC petition that the broadba ...
- Business Email Marketing Is Moving On -- Opt-In Or Ship Out
EuroMail, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
The DMA announces its fight against the new ePrivacy draft rules, whi ...
- EU Flexing Its Privacy Muscles Right Up Until Brexit -- Thank Goodness
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 21, 2016
As the British Government faces a humiliating climb down at the han ...
- Turn Settles FTC Charges Over 'Supercookies'
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Ad company Turn has agreed to settle allegations that it deceived consume ...
- Facebook Accused Of Misleading EU Regulators About WhatsApp
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Facebook could be hit with a hefty fine in Europe for alleged ...
- Best To Start GDPR Double Opt-In Now To Prepare For 2018
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Monday, December 19, 2016
With the arrival of the new legislation, double opt-in will become essenti ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Google Over 'Dangerously Invasive' Privacy Policy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 19, 2016
Google "has given itself the power to track users across the overwhelmi ...
- Evernote Weathers Privacy Snafu
MoBlog, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, December 16, 2016
What the heck is going on over at Evernote? The popular productivi ...
- Twitter Cuts Off Data Access For Feds
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Friday, December 16, 2016
Twitter continued to close off government access to its user data v ...
- Advocates Seek New Privacy Regulations For Health Wearables
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 15, 2016
"Privacy, security, and consumer-protection policies for the connected-health market should be he ...
- Open Internet Champion Wheeler To Leave FCC
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 15, 2016
Tom Wheeler, who said today that he is leaving the FCC, spearhead ...
- Advocates Call For New Privacy Standards For Wearables
Raw, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 15, 2016
Consumer advocates are calling for new regulations for mobile health apps a ...
- Tech Workers Say They Won't Create Database To Track Muslims
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Two hundred tech workers said in an open letter to President-elect Dona ...
- DMA Gives An Early Steer On The ePrivacy Directive
Around The Net In EU Email Marketing, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The ePrivacy Directive is the piece of EU legislation that informs t ...
- Civil Rights Groups Protest Boston PD's Social Media Monitoring Plan
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The pushback against law enforcement monitoring of social media continued this we ...
- Judge Approves Gawker's $31 Million Settlement With Hulk Hogan
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 13, 2016
A federal bankruptcy judge has signed off on Gawker's $31 million invasi ...
- Google Privacy Chief Slams French Regulators Over Censorship Demands
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 12, 2016
"It's plain common sense that one country should not have the rig ...
- Watchdog Faults Moose Toys Over Ad For 'Selfie Mic'
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 9, 2016
An ad for Moose Toys' "Selfie Mic," which lets people create a ...
- A Metrics Miracle
Metrics Insider, Josh Chasin - Friday, December 9, 2016
Josh Chasin is a poet -- and he knows it -- wi ...