- 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 ...
- FCC Broadband Plan Focuses on Privacy, Competition
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 15, 2010
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
summary ... - New Efforts To Merge Online And Offline Data Revive Old Privacy Issues
PolicyBlog, 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 Minors
Online 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 Thought
PolicyBlog, 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 Roulette
The 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-Sharing
Online 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 Data
PolicyBlog, 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 Change
Online 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 Interest
PolicyBlog, 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 Blunder
PolicyBlog, 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 Buzz
Online 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 ...
- New Faces At FTC Could Spur Crackdown On Web Privacy
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 Recall
Publishing 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 Google
Inside 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 Freewheeling
Around 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 ...