- Privacy Protection Is Now A Centrist Issue
Online Spin, Dave Morgan - Thursday, March 19, 2009
The issue of protecting consumer online privacy is about to get a lot more attention in Washington, D.C. While I've written about this subject a number of times in the ...
- IAB Preps Anti-Regulatory Campaign
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2009
As part of what appears to be a lobbying effort aimed at heading off regulation, the Interactive Advertising Bureau has created a video featuring small publishers touting the value of ...
- Facebook Enhances Privacy Options
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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- Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Monday, March 16, 2009
As promised, Facebook has begun allowing users to open up all or part of their profiles for anyone to see. The move is part of the overhaul Facebook announced earlier ...
- Legislator Seeks To Blur Images On Google Services
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
California Assemblyman Joel Anderson is proposing a measure that would force Google to blur images of hospitals, schools, churches and government buildings on Google Maps and Google Earth. CNet writer ...
- Google Takes Mystery Out Of BT, Gives Consumers A Say In What They See
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Google will unveil new privacy measures today that will give consumers more control over behavioral targeting. Now, when Google serves banner ads on outside publishers' sites, the ads will include ...
- Survey: Older Americans Most Concerned About Online Privacy
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, March 10, 2009
American Web surfers are certainly concerned about online privacy, but the level of concern is highest among older Americans, according to a study from Burst Media. The survey, based on ...
- Privacy Please: Pleading for Discretion as Emerging Media Make a Journalist out of every Joe Plumber
Notes from the Digital Frontier, jen - Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday night, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania addressed Ball State students and faculty concerning "Emerging Media ...
- BT: Privacy Peril Or Key To Web Prosperity?
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Friday, February 27, 2009
If behavioral targeting is the key to providing Web users advertising that's better tailored to their particular needs and interests--instead of banner ads that they ignore--then what's the harm to ...
- Google Tries To Kibosh Funding Of Critic
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 25, 2009
New revelations have given some of Google's most ardent critics additional ammunition. This week, it came to light that Google attempted to persuade a foundation to stop funding a Santa ...
- Privacy Advocates Criticize Data Retention Bill
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 23, 2009
Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require Internet service providers to store information about users for at least two years. Sponsors Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Sen. John Cornyn ...
- Privacy A Major Concern Among Web Surfers
Online Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, February 19, 2009
Following on the heels of Facebook's decision to rescind a highly controversial move to store all content posted on the social network, new data has emerged to support consumers' increasing ...
- Epic: Facebook Controversy Underscores Need For New Privacy Law
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Thursday, February 19, 2009
Consumer privacy watchdog the Electronic Privacy Information Center claims that the recent uproar over Facebook changing its terms of service highlights the need for a privacy law. According to the ...
- Last Chance For Privacy Self-Regulation
Online Spin, Dave Morgan - Thursday, February 19, 2009
The FTC is throwing down the gauntlet to the online ad industry. While the report still supports the notion of industry self-regulation on privacy rather than asking Congress to pass ...
- Facebook Reverts To Old TOS
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Facebook on Tuesday issued an abrupt about-face when it quickly reverted to its prior Terms of Service amid widespread complaints from users, media outlets and privacy groups. The social networking ...
- Facebook Founder Responds To Terms Of Service Criticism
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, February 17, 2009
In a memo to users, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks out against the hubbub surrounding the recent update to the site's Terms of Service. While the blogosphere went up in ...
- Facebook And Privacy: Get Over It
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Tuesday, February 17, 2009
In response to Mark Zuckerberg's privacy memo to Facebook users, BoomTown writer Kara Swisher borrows an infamous line from former Sun Chief Scott McNealy: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get ...
- Judge Orders Topix To Reveal Users' ID Info
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 12, 2009
A judge in Texas has ordered the site Topix to reveal identifying information about 178 anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed two residents online. The commenters had written about Mark and ...
- Critics: New Google App Gives Abusers Too Much Latitude
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 6, 2009
The watchdog group Privacy International is sounding an alarm about Google's new phone tracking system, Latitude. "As it stands right now, Latitude could be a gift to stalkers, prying employers, ...
- Digital Pirates Winning Piracy Battle
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Thursday, February 5, 2009
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- Privacy Advocate To Head lxquick.com U.S. Media Relations
Online Media Daily, - Thursday, January 29, 2009
Anti-automatic identification activist and privacy advocate Katherine Albrecht said she will head U.S. media relations for Netherlands-based Ixquick.com, a search engine positioned as "the world's most private search engine" because ...
- Ixquick Ceases Logging IP Addresses
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, January 28, 2009
In a bid to protect visitors' privacy, search engine Ixquick has completely stopped logging users' IP addresses. Previously, Ixquick stored the information for 48 hours. The three major search engines ...
- NARC Hopes To Curtail Privacy Laws With Bigger Board
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 28, 2009
As part of a far-ranging effort to head off new online privacy laws, the National Advertising Review Council said Tuesday it added Interactive Advertising Bureau President and CEO Randall Rothenberg ...
- Court To AOL: California Locale OK For Class-Action Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 22, 2009
An appeals court has dealt AOL a blow in a lawsuit stemming from one of the biggest online privacy breaches to date. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ...
- New White House Asked To Relax Cookie Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 15, 2009
The think tank Future of Privacy Forum is asking President-elect Barack Obama's transition team to relax an 8-year-old policy limiting the use of cookies at government Web sites. Since 2000, ...
- FTC Asked To Protect Mobile Privacy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Two advocacy groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether mobile marketers are violating users' privacy. In the 52-page complaint to be filed today, the Center for Digital ...
- Contradiction: AT&T For Privacy?
Feedback Loop, - Friday, December 19, 2008
This [the Future of Privacy Forum] seemed like a scheme by AT&T since I first heard of it. Talk about irony, the company that had a special room built in ...
- No Misinformation, Please
Feedback Loop, - Friday, December 19, 2008
I don't think there's anything wrong with raising legitimate concerns about privacy in the digital (and increasingly geotargeted) age. But I do have a problem with misinformation. Hopefully this group ...
- Yahoo Step Forward Not Big Enough For Some Privacy Advocates
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 18, 2008
Yahoo's announcement Wednesday that it will "anonymize" most search logs within 90 days has drawn mixed reactions from privacy advocates. On one hand, the move is seen as a step ...
- Yahoo Will Render User Data Anonymous After 90 Days
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Staff Writers - Wednesday, December 17, 2008
The "race to the bottom" on data-retention policies continued on Wednesday as Yahoo announced it would anonymize user data after 90 days, which replaces its previous policy of purging all ...
