- Battle Between Ratings Site And Law Firm Escalates
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 24, 2012
A dispute between a Florida law firm and the review company Ratingz.n ...
- DAA To Require Members To Honor Do-Not-Track Headers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 23, 2012
The ad industry's self-regulatory group Digital Advertising Alliance now supports the id ...
- Watchdogs Ask FCC To Scuttle Verizon's Spectrum Deal
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Verizon's planned alliance with three cable companies will undermine competition and ha ...
- Do-Not-Track Advances, But Debate About Meaning Of 'Tracking' Continues
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 23, 2012
This week, after years of debate, the ad industry has agreed ...
- Weekends Are For Fashion
Raw, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 23, 2012
People tend to read print newspapers in the early morning and evenin ...
- Web Users Sue Google For Safari Workaround
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Google has been hit with two potential class-action privacy lawsuits stemming fr ...
- Attorneys General Concerned By Google's New Privacy Policy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Attorneys general from 36 states told Google CEO Larry Page they a ...
- Training Consumers To Opt In
Raw, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Are apps training people to opt in to data collection. Rachel Paqu ...
- Google Under Fire For Tracking Safari Users
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 17, 2012
Google could face Federal Trade Commission sanctions for dropping tracking cookies ...
- FTC Wants EPIC To Butt Out Of Enforcement Decision
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The watchdog group Electronic Privacy Information Center recently went to court ...
- FTC: Apps For Kids Fall Short On Privacy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 16, 2012
Developers of childrens' apps often fail to adequately tell parents what da ...
- Google Gets Around Safari's Privacy-Friendly Default Settings
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 17, 2012
Shortly after news broke this morning that Google and other companies we ...
- Apple Promises To Crack Down On Privacy Violations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Faced with reports that app developers are scooping up iPhone users' addre ...
- Ron Paul Camp Presses Claim To Unmask Attack Ad Creator
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 16, 2012
At the beginning of the year, a Twitter and YouTube user wi ...
- AP Says News Aggregator Infringes Copyright
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 14, 2012
The Associated Press on Tuesday took aim at Meltwater, a company th ...
- SEC Says Telecoms Must Allow Shareholders To Vote On Net Neutrality
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Last year, net neutrality advocates proposed that shareholders of Verizon, AT&T a ...
- Netflix Settles Data Retention Suit For $9M
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 13, 2012
Video rental company Netflix has reached a tentative agreement to settle ...
- NAI: Behavioral Targeting Opt-Outs Nearly Double In 2011
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 14, 2012
More than 8 million Web users visited the site operated by priva ...
- New Tool Grades Sites On Privacy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 13, 2012
Privacy Choice is unveiling a new tool today that grades sites numerical ...
- Data Broker Accused Of Deceiving Consumers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 13, 2012
Privacy company Abine has filed a Federal Trade Commission complaint against t ...
- Magazines Sued For Violating Calif. Privacy Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 9, 2012
Nearly a dozen publishers including Rodale, Conde Nast, Time, Inc. and Hear ...
- Court Puts Google Privacy Case On Fast Track
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 10, 2012
The federal court decided this week to fast-track a lawsuit aimed ...
- EPIC Seeks To Prevent Google's Privacy Changes
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The advocacy group EPIC is seeking a court order requiring the F ...
- More Mobile App Privacy Snafus: Hipster Is Uploading Users' Address Books
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 9, 2012
In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that mobile apps would face ...
- FTC Sends Warning To Mobile App Developers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission has warned three online data brokers that the ...
- Mobile Network Apologizes For Privacy Breach, Deletes Data Collected Without Consent
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The mobile social network Path landed in the middle of a priva ...
- Congress Urged To Seek Broad Input On Piracy Laws
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 6, 2012
Amnesty International, Public Knowledge, Internet Archive and Mozilla are among a bro ...
- ReDigi Can Keep Selling 'Used' Tracks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 6, 2012
The startup ReDigi, which allows consumers to sell their unwanted "used" iTun ...
- After SOPA Defeat, Paramount Reaches Out To Academia
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Until very recently, Hollywood seemed to think that the Stop Online Pira ...
- Google, EU Spar Over Privacy Changes
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 3, 2012
Privacy regulators in the EU have asked Google to delay its pl ...