- Global Privacy Regulators Take Aim At Buzz, Facebook, Street View
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Privacy regulators from 10 countries complained on Tuesday that Google "betrayed a disappointing disregard for fundamental privacy norms and laws" when it launched Buzz. ...
- Are We CLEAR? Looking Through 'Transparency'
Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Friday, April 16, 2010
The privacy icons are here. The privacy icons are here. After a protracted period of collaboration, development and testing, the long-promised proposals for applying greater transparency to online data gatheri ...
- Young Adults Say Web Sites Should Be Required To Delete User Data
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 15, 2010
Debunking the oft-repeated assertion that young people don't care about privacy, new research shows that Web users between the ages of 18 and 24 are highly protective of certain informati ...
- UC Berkeley Expert Questions Facebook's Privacy Policies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 16, 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently justified controversial changes to the site's privacy policy by trotting out the sentiment that people no longer care about privacy as much as in t ...
- Tech Specs Issued For 'You Are Being Targeted' Icons
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 14, 2010
As part of an attempt to demonstrate that the online industry can protect consumers' privacy, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Network Advertising Initiative have issued
technical specs f ...
- Masked Gmailer Remains Anonymous In Sandals Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 13, 2010
A New York judge has shot down Sandals' request to unmask a Gmail user who allegedly criticized the vacation resort's hiring policies as racist. Sandals had
argued th ...
- On Incivility
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, April 13, 2010
You know you must be getting old when you're bothered by incivility in online forums. But it does bother me, damn it, and not just out of some reflexive disli ...
- Facebook Users Push Back Against New Privacy Plan
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 9, 2010
Facebook's unsettling plan to share users' names, photos and other information with some outside Web sites doesn't seem to be going over well with its members. The U.K. security fi ...
- Watchdogs Ask FTC To Probe 'Behavioral Targeting On Steroids'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 8, 2010
A coalition of advocacy organizations led by the Center for Digital Democracy is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate companies that are merging online and offline data about W ...
- FACEBOOK PRIVACY CHANGES
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh -
People are still confused about latest Facebook privacy changes, according to blog post last night by head of company's public policy team. Art: what do we use for privacy stor ...
- Case Against Adzilla Settled, Legality Of Targeting Based On ISP Data Not
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 7, 2010
A privacy lawsuit against defunct behavioral targeting company Adzilla and its partners was quietly settled late last month, according to court records. Terms were confidential and the settlement leaves unresolv ...
- Photogs Sue Google For Book Digitization
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Google has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from its book digitization project, this time by the American Society of Media Photographers and other trade groups. In a lawsuit fil ...
- Changes To Buzz Privacy Setting Not Enough For Some Privacy Advocates
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2010
Facing two class-action lawsuits and a potential Federal Trade Commission probe, Google is again tweaking Buzz in an attempt to address some of the privacy concerns raised by the featur ...
- Facebook Presses Problematic Plan To Share Data With Third Parties
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt has taken to the company's blog to justify the site's proposal to share information about members -- including their names, pictures and their friends' names ...
- Google Buzz Gives Privacy Another Go
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, April 5, 2010
Likely by Tuesday, Google will begin asking all Buzz users to confirm or change their privacy settings. Since its coolly-received debut, the newfangled communication platform has faced continued criticism fr ...
- One Lawsuit Disappears, But Facebook's Privacy Woes Persist
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 5, 2010
Last summer, Facebook was hit with a sweeping privacy lawsuit by five users who alleged that the site's business model, "has transformed from that of a social network into th ...
- Google Buzz Blowback, Part Two
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Monday, April 5, 2010
I never thought I'd say it, but: poor Google! The search giant, so easy to loathe for its overwhelming dominance of search marketing, burned its paws with its misguided introducti ...
- Official's Buzz Profile Sparks FOIA Request For His Emails
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 2, 2010
Google's Buzz has drawn two privacy lawsuits, a request for a Federal Trade Commission investigation and some pointed criticism by lawmakers. Now, information revealed by Buzz about Andrew McLaughlin, Depu ...
- Facebook To Researcher: Keep Your Hands Off Our Data!
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 1, 2010
Facebook has made a trove of data about its members available to anyone who knows how to use a search engine. But the social networking site doesn't seem to wa ...
- Industry Coalition Urges Congress To Update 24-Year-Old Electronic Privacy Act
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A coalition of Web companies including Google, AOL and Microsoft, along with digital rights groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, are calling on Congress to enact new online privacy protection ...
- Coalition Seeks Updated Online Privacy Laws
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
In an effort to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a coalition of interest groups, non-profits and private companies have come together, including Microsoft, Google, AOL, and the ACLU. Original ...
- Privacy Rules Only Apply to New Products
Inside Performance, Kaila Colbin - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Let's face it: Facebook is a privacy disaster. From the Beacon disaster to Zuckerberg brazenly declaring that nobody wants privacy anymore (and that's why we're now supplying all your da ...
- Cleveland Paper Unmasks Judge As Commenter
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
In the last few years, newspapers have gone to court in a number of high-profile cases to protect the anonymity of online commenters. Some have even invoked state reporter shie ...
- The Monster Ball Of Privacy
Online Spin, Kendall Allen - Monday, March 29, 2010
Surely you know about the monsters in your closet. For consumers, these hairy guys are you -- the advertiser or the agency wielding sinister ad tracking and targeting voodoo. F ...
- Lawmakers Seek Investigation Of Google Buzz
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 29, 2010
For Google, the fallout from Buzz shows no signs of letting up. In the latest development, a group of lawmakers said today that they have asked the Federal Trade Commissi ...
- FTC To Consider New Restrictions On Collecting Data From Children
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it's seeking input from the public about whether to broaden regulations aimed at preserving children's privacy online. The commission said it's now consideri ...
- Beacon Settlement Approval Despite Objections
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Rejecting complaints by privacy organizations, a federal judge in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday approved a controversial $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit stemming from Facebook's Beacon ad progra ...
- Is Online Privacy Dead?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Online privacy -- it's an oxymoron in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and similar services, according to the New York Times. Furthermore, consumers are deluding themselves by believing that ...
- FTC Hears Debate About Whether Privacy Polices Can Work
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Speaking at the Federal Trade Commission's roundtable discussion about online privacy, Fred Cate, director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington, call ...
- A Peek Into How the Feds Use Social Nets -- Like What You See?
Social Media Insider, Catharine P. Taylor - Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The New York Times has a big story today on online privacy -- or lack thereof. But that's not really the privacy story of the week that interests me. Yesterda ...
