The Federal Communications Commission's ambitious national broadband plan will include recommendations aimed at ensuring consumers' online privacy, according to an executive summary released on Monday. While the six-page
summaryNew Efforts To Merge Online And Offline Data Revive Old Privacy IssuesPolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
More than 10 years ago, DoubleClick's plan to acquire Abacus and marry online cookie-based data to offline data set off a privacy furor that resulted in congressional hearings, litigation a ...
Where Did Buzz Go Wrong?Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, March 15, 2010
GigaOm examines why Google Buzz has drawn so much criticism, and what other service providers can learn from the search giant's experience. "Part of the reason why Buzz has co ...
Who Owns The Privacy?Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Friday, March 12, 2010
The industry initiative to implement and enforce self-regulation is dovetailing with rising concern that privacy matters to everyone's bottom line. ...
Maine Repeals Law Restricting Data That Can Be Collected From MinorsOnline Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 11, 2010
A Maine legislative committee voted Thursday to repeal a controversial 2009 online marketing law, which was widely seen as unconstitutional, that restricts the data that can be collected from mino ...
Privacy Concerns Force Netflix To Shelve New Contest PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 12, 2010
Facing a consumer class-action privacy lawsuit and a Federal Trade Commission inquiry, Netflix is dropping its ill-conceived plan to release data about consumers as part of a new contest ...
Chatroulette Users Not As Anonymous As They ThoughtPolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 11, 2010
The fast-growing Chatroulette has been hailed as the next viral sensation. But the site, which enables users to video chat with strangers, also could become a poster child for t ...
The Mother of All Bad Ideas: Puzz RouletteThe Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, March 11, 2010
Call it edgy, call it innovative, call it forward-thinking, call it whatever you want -- I'm going to call it stupid. The French Connection has generated a lot of pu ...
Report: Facebook To Add Location-SharingOnline Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
As location-based social networks like Foursquare gain traction, Facebook is getting ready to jump into the game by allowing users to share their location with friends. According to a ...
EFF Questions Tighter Privacy Rules For Sensitive DataPolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
In conversations about online privacy, industry executives and consumer advocates often appear to agree that companies should provide more protection for so-called sensitive data than other types of information. B ...
High School Reunion Ruin: Classmates.com Sued Over Opt-Out Privacy Setting ChangeOnline Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 8, 2010
Two members of networking site Classmates.com have sued the service for allegedly violating their privacy by revising the service to make members' information more accessible to the Web at larg ...
Complaint About Google Buzz Draws FTC InterestPolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 8, 2010
Evidence is mounting that the Federal Trade Commission is gearing up to take action against Web companies -- especially social networking services -- that play fast-and-loose with users' privacy. ...
Another Lawsuit Filed Over Buzz BlunderPolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 5, 2010
Google was hit this week with a second potential class-action lawsuit over its new Buzz social networking service. This case was filed in federal district court in Rhode Island ...
Watchdog Group Alleges Google Violates Own Privacy Policy With BuzzOnline Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A watchdog group that recently asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google Buzz has supplemented its
complaint with an allegation that the new service violates Google's o ...
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 4, 2010
Setting the stage for a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on companies that violate Web users' privacy, the Senate last night confirmed two new commissioners -- Julie Brill and Edith Ramire ...
Online Advertising RecallPublishing Insider, Ari Rosenberg - Thursday, March 4, 2010
I have been working in the interactive advertising industry since April of 1999. And yet I feel strangely disconnected to the online advertising world I work in. I feel th ...
Freedoms, Borders And GoogleInside Performance, Derek Gordon - Monday, March 1, 2010
Google's having a tough time in Europe. Last week, an Italian judge found three of the company's local executives guilty in a privacy violation case because they allowed a teena ...
Report: Phorm's Secret Behavioral Targeting Tests Spark Criminal Probe Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, February 28, 2010
The British Internet Service Provider BT is reportedly facing a criminal investigation by the country's Crown Prosecution Service for allegedly selling data about consumers' Web activity to the behavioral targeti ...
Google Hits More Privacy Speedbumps PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 26, 2010
Google's privacy woes in Europe just keep mounting. Earlier this week, three company executives were convicted of criminally violating a disabled teen's privacy based on a YouTube clip uploaded ...
Microsoft's Fourth Amendment FreewheelingAround the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, February 25, 2010
According to ReadWriteWeb, watchdog site Cryptome was recently "removed from the Web" for refusing to take down a copy of a certain Microsoft document. Named the Microsoft Online Services Glob ...
