- Zynga Wins 'Scamville' Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 15, 2011
Handing Zynga a victory, a federal judge ruled that Web user Rebec ...
- Broken Thumbs Pays $50K To Settle COPPA Charges
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 15, 2011
The parent company of mobile app developer Broken Thumbs and majority own ...
- NARC To Start Enforcing Privacy Principles
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Review Council said today that ...
- BART's Wireless Block Draws Condemnation, FCC Scrutiny
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 15, 2011
A decision by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit to cut o ...
- IAB: New Domain Name Plan Would Hurt Brand Owners
Raw, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 15, 2011
The Interactive Advertising Bureau warned on Monday that a plan to assi ...
- ISPs Redirect Search Traffic On Yahoo, Bing, Raising Legal, Privacy Issues
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 5, 2011
More than 10 Internet service providers are redirecting search traffic on Yah ...
- Epic Abandons Controversial 'History-Sniffing' Practice
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 4, 2011
Epic Marketplace has quietly stopped using controversial "history-sniffing" techniques that enabled ...
- New Tool Helps Users Keep ISPs Honest
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 5, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission recently approved neutrality regulations that prohibit wired broadba ...
- Dozens Of Web Companies Sued For 'ETag' Tracking
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Two California residents have brought a privacy lawsuit against KISSmetrics and ...
- KISSmetrics 'Blindsided' By Privacy Complaints About New Tracking Technology
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 4, 2011
KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah said today that the company was "blindsided" ...
- Fade To Black: Zediva Ordered To Stop Streaming Movies
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Handing Hollywood a victory against an online startup, a federal judge h ...
- Federal Appeals Court: Google Can Forward Takedown Notices To Chilling Effects
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 3, 2011
A federal appellate court handed a victory to Google, and to Chilli ...
- KISSmetrics, Hulu Sued Over New Tracking Technology
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 1, 2011
Two major Web companies, Hulu and Spotify, suspended use of KISSmetrics' analyti ...
- FCC Study: DSL Connections Even Slower Than Advertised
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Many people who connect to the Web through DSL lines are getti ...
- Spokeo Wants Ruling On Privacy Allegations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Data aggregator Spokeo is trying to put the brakes on a priva ...
- Companies Resort To Browser 'Hacks' To Track Cookie-Deleters
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 1, 2011
For years, people who wanted to avoid online tracking have regularly delet ...
- Appellate Court Sides With Google Against TradeComet
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2011
An appellate court has handed Google a victory on a procedural iss ...
- 'Gmail Man' Snoops In Messages, Targets Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Consumer advocates have hoped for a long time that Web companies wou ...
- Franken: AT&T, T-Mobile Merger Threatens Net Neutrality
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sen. Al Franken, who is asking the government to block the propos ...
- Report Details How Trackers Can Learn Users' Names
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2011
Earlier this month, the Stanford Center for Internet & Society's Jonathan May ...
- Say Media Settles Flash Cookie Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Say Media will pay almost $1 million to settle a class-action lawsu ...
- GOP Senators Call For Financial Assessment Of Neutrality Regs
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Republicans in the Senate almost certainly don't have enough support from the ...
- Web Users Uneasy With Behavioral Targeting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
A sizable proportion of U.S. Web users are uncomfortable with online tracki ...
- Facebook, Connecticut A.G. Settle Differences Over Facial Recognition
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
When Facebook launched its facial recognition feature last month, the company spurr ...
- Turn Down The Volume: Judge Rejects Million-Dollar User Verdict
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 22, 2011
A jury's decision that a peer-to-peer user should pay the record indust ...
- Netflix: Privacy Law Prevents Facebook Integration
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
Netflix told shareholders today that a 23-year-old privacy law is "discouraging" ...
- Groupon Privacy Rules Draw Congressional Attention
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Groupon's recent changes to its privacy policy are drawing scrutiny on Capit ...
- Threatened With Suit, Newport Television Backs Down From YouTube Copyright Claim
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 22, 2011
Advocacy group Free Press recently launched a new initiative aimed at exposi ...
- Report: Epic Using 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Epic Marketplace is using history-sniffing techniques to collect information about users' W ...
- NAI To Probe Epic Marketplace's 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Several years ago, before renaming itself Epic Advertising, the online ad compa ...