- Maine Defends Broadband Privacy Law Against First Amendment Challenge
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 29, 2020
"Maine's Law is guided by the urgent need to safeguard the privacy of Internet consumers," Attorney General Aaron Frey tells a federal judge. ...
- Ad-Blocking Tool 'Seriously Threatened' By Recent Decision, EFF Tells Supreme Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 22, 2020
A recent decision in a battle between two security vendors "seriously threatens" the availability of Privacy Badger, an anti-tracking and ad-blocking tool offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the group ...
- North Dakota Microsoft Developer For COVID Tracing App Refutes Data-Sharing Allegations
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, May 25, 2020
Microsoft's ProudCrowd Developer Tim Brookins says the allegation suggesting the contact-tracing app Care19 transmits some user location data to Foursquare is not exactly true. Brookins discussed the allegations that Care19 ...
- ANA Urges Federal Lawmaker To Oppose California Privacy Proposal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 21, 2020
"Our nation's ad-supported news media faces a regulatory hammer blow from these new browser obligations against the anvil of the pandemic-driven pullback in the broader ad market," ANA CEO Bob ...
- Data Roadmap For States' Reopening Tracks Consumer Spend, Analyzes Behavior From 40M Households
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 8, 2020
Commerce Signals' COVID-19 Consumer Spend Impact Dashboard analyzes changes in payment card revenue across consumer categories, online vs offline sales changes, regional differences, and more. ...
- Privacy Advocates Press Forward With New California Ballot Initiative
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 5, 2020
A California advocacy group has gathered more than 900,000 signatures for a new ballot initiative that could toughen the state's existing privacy law. ...
- Comcast Connects Xfinity Voice Remotes To Tile Tracking Devices
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Comcast is enabling Xfinity customers to use their voice remote to audibly ring their Tile tracking devices. Tile devices, known for helping people find lost things onto which they have ...
- Verizon Media Launches COVID-19 Resources, Tracking Updates For Yahoo Search, Finance, Weather
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 27, 2020
The data provides COVID-19 information on locations, cases, deaths and recoveries by country, state, and county level and powers COVID-19 tracking updates on Yahoo Search, Yahoo Finance, and Yahoo Weat ...
- Kantar Reveals Post-Pandemic Planning Data: Finds Consumers Challenged, Embrace Advertising
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, April 23, 2020
Kantar has begun re-contacting panelists in its massive TGI media-planning panel to glean explicit insights about how the pandemic is altering consumer attitudes and behaviors. The findings are not surprising, ...
- COVID-19 Tracking App Causes Privacy Row In France
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, April 22, 2020
The French Government is in a privacy standoff with Apple and Google over its new COVID-19 tracking app, the "BBC" reports. Minsters want the app to reveal more personal information ...
- Android Users Battling Google Can't Seek Intervention By Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 16, 2020
A group of Android users have lost another round in a privacy battle with Google over alleged location tracking. ...
- Broadband Industry Presses Judge To Scrap Maine Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 13, 2020
"The statute violates the First Amendment," four lobbying groups tell a federal judge in Maine. "It excessively burdens ISPs' beneficial, pro-consumer speech about a wide variety of subjects." ...
- Mindshare Detects Signs Of Pandemic Wear-Out: Less Brand Awareness, Time With Media
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, April 14, 2020
After weeks of increasing consumer awareness of brands playing a role in addressing the pandemic, American awareness of COVID-19-related marketing may have peaked, according to the latest in an ongoing ...
- Court Revives Claims Privacy Claims Over Facebook's 'Like' Button
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 9, 2020
Siding against Facebook, a federal appellate panel has revived a lawsuit claiming that the company violated users' privacy by tracking them via the "Like" button. ...
- Mobile Apps Use Location Data To Identify When People Cross Paths With COVID-19
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Software tools that use location history and ad-targeting technology to track how COVID-19 spreads are available from companies like OnAudience.com, which has developed an app that gives people information if ...
- Facebook Users Battle Company Over Location Tracking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Facebook users are pressing a federal judge to allow them to proceed with a lawsuit over the platform's alleged "persistent, duplicitous, profit-driven collection and use" of location data. ...
- App To Track COVID-19 Exposure Under Development
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, April 1, 2020
British scientists are working with the NHS to develop an app that could track down people who have been near someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. The "BBC" explains ...
- Proposed California Privacy Regs Violate First Amendment, Ad Groups Claim
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 30, 2020
Ad groups say a proposed requirement to honor browser-based opt-out tools would violate companies' free speech right to share information. ...
- Businesses Should Not Be Prosecuted For California Privacy Law Violations, ANA Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 27, 2020
"Businesses should not be penalized under the CCPA for current conduct or activities when their attention is rightfully focused on the dire and important matter of managing the novel coronavirus," ...
- California AG Flip-Flops On Proposed Privacy Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 12, 2020
The newest round of proposed regulations to the California Consumer Privacy Act includes some revisions that privacy advocates had sought. ...
- California Privacy Law Could Become More Business-Friendly, Watchdogs Say
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 27, 2020
New proposed regulations "are largely a step backwards for protecting consumers' privacy, particularly in terms of consumers' attempting to stop the sale of their information," the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU ...
- ANA Seeks To Postpone California Privacy Enforcement
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 25, 2020
The ANA argues in its 18-page comments that companies will need an additional six months to comply with the "novel and operationally complex" measure. ...
- What Browsers Reveal When They Share Data
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 24, 2020
Findings from a study published Monday, which analyzed six browsers, show how they track user location and share browsing history. ...
- Proposed California Privacy Rules Draw Mixed Reaction From ANA
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Draft regulations "still have significant problems that, if left uncorrected, will negatively impact both consumers and businesses." ...
- Privacy Bill Clears Washington State Senate
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 17, 2020
The Washington Privacy Act, which passed in the state Senate by a vote of 46-1, now moves to the House, ...
- Washington Privacy Proposal Will Spur 'Frivolous Litigation,' Ad Industry Warns
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 11, 2020
A privacy proposal making its way through the Washington statehouse could "flood the courts with frivolous lawsuits driven by opportunistic trial lawyers searching for technical violations, rather than focusing on ...
- California AG Revises Potential Privacy Regulations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 10, 2020
A new proposal by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra would narrow the definition of "personal information." ...
- House Democrat Introduces Bill To Broaden Children's Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 30, 2020
A bill proposed Thursday by a House Democrat would allow parents to sue online companies that track their children. ...
- Amazon's Ring Sharing Personal Data With Appsflyer, Facebook, Others
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 30, 2020
Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that Ring collects data from users' phones and shares that information with third-party trackers. ...
- Google To Charge Law Enforcement For Data Related To Search Warrants, Subpoenas
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 27, 2020
Google will now begin charging for data such as emails, location tracking information and search queries that law enforcement and other government agencies can use for search warrants and subpoe ...
