- Consumers Don't Understand Opt-Out Tools
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2011
In a new critique of the ad industry's self-regulatory efforts, researchers ...
- Facebook Wins Lawsuit About Friend Finder Ads
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 28, 2011
Handing Facebook a decisive win, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit allegi ...
- Lawmakers To Facebook: Why Keep 'Likes,' Chats, Deleted Posts?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2011
Austrian law student Max Schrems recently asked Facebook to turn over informati ...
- Rockefeller Asks Credit Card Companies About Behavioral Targeting Plans
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 28, 2011
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, head of the Senate Commerce Committee, is questioning Vi ...
- HTC, AccuWeather Sued For Privacy 'Defect' In Smartphones
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 27, 2011
Two consumers filed a potential class-action lawsuit against HTC and AccuWeather.com ov ...
- Yelp Wins 'Extortion' Lawsuits
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 28, 2011
Last year, several small business owners put the spotlight on Yelp ...
- Anti-Piracy Bill Unveiled In House
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Lawmakers in the House have introduced a controversial new measure aimed ...
- New California Privacy Bill Raises Questions About Bloggers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Civil rights group cheered this month when California Governor Jerry Brown sign ...
- Copyright Enforcer Righthaven Ordered To Pay Defense Attorneys $120K
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 27, 2011
The situation is looking bleaker than ever for copyright enforcer Righthaven, than ...
- 'New York Times' Says HuffPo Infringing Trademark
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 25, 2011
On Monday, Huffington Post launched its newest feature, a column about parenti ...
- Nonprofit Open Media Group Calls For AT&T Shareholders To Endorse Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Members of the nonprofit Open Media and Information Companies Initiative are proposi ...
- FTC, Google Settle Buzz Privacy Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 24, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it has finalized a settleme ...
- ComScore Loses Bid To Transfer Privacy Case To Virginia
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 24, 2011
Consumers who are suing comScore for allegedly duping them into installing monitori ...
- Google: Officials In U.S. Sought To Remove Videos 'Defaming' Police
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Google's latest "transparency report," released today, shows that the U.S. government request ...
- Web Companies, Privacy Advocates Weigh In On Supreme Court Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 21, 2011
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case is drawing the attention of W ...
- Akamai Report: U.S. Still Slowpoke Compared To 11 Other Countries
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 24, 2011
Residents of the U.S. now surf the Web at an average spe ...
- Netflix Challenges Video Privacy Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 20, 2011
Faced with a potential multimillion-dollar class-action privacy lawsuit for allegedly retaining people ...
- Righthaven Rebuffed By 9th Circuit
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 21, 2011
Copyright enforcer Righthaven doesn't seem to be having better luck in Sou ...
- Pepsi Accused Of Deceiving Teens With Immersive Ads
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
PepsiCo's online marketing efforts for Doritos are deceptive and also violate teen ...
- Senator: Public Policy Hasn't Kept Up With Technology
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 20, 2011
The head of the Senate Commerce Committee has asked the Federal Tra ...
- Viacom Tells Appeals Court YouTube 'Welcomed Infringement'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Viacom on Tuesday asked a federal appellate court to revive a lawsu ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Google Wins Key Ruling In AdWords Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 17, 2011
In a significant victory for Google, a judge has ruled that t ...
- 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 ...
- House Panel Debates Online Tracking
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 13, 2011
New privacy laws are needed in order to protect people from onli ...
- 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 ...