- Google, Viacom: Still No Privacy Deal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 14, 2008
Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube is continuing to roil digital rights advocates, who say that the case has already had ramifications far beyond the scope of intellectual property protections. ...
- Canadian Urges Google To Champion Privacy Rights
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 11, 2008
A Canadian privacy official has asked Google to appeal an order requiring it to disclose records about YouTube users. "Google has successfully fought broad government subpoenas for users' search recor ...
- Google Shows User Tracking Has Its Benefits
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Most people who follow Google know that the company records the unique Internet Protocol addresses of every computer that connects to its products and services. For example, everything you've eve ...
- NebuAd, Privacy Advocates Face Off Before Senate Today
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Behavioral targeting company NebuAd, which serves ads to Web users based on information gleaned from Internet service providers, might be violating federal wiretap laws. That's according to the digital righ ...
- Skeptics Question NebuAd's Privacy Claims
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 9, 2008
To hear NebuAd CEO Bob Dykes tell it, the controversial company is the best thing to come along for online privacy in a very long time. Not everyone agrees. ...
- Privacy Advocates To Google: Told You So
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 7, 2008
For years, privacy advocates have said that Google retains more information about its users than is wise. Now, some advocates say that a decision last week in a copyright infringeme ...
- Privacy Pundits Lambaste Judge In YouTube Case
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 3, 2008
Privacy advocates are condemning a federal judge's ruling ordering Google to give Viacom information about which users watched what videos on YouTube. ...
- Online Privacy Bill Dies In NY Assembly, But Will Be Resurrected
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 26, 2008
Lawmakers in New York adjourned this week without voting on a controversial bill that would require online advertisers to allow people to opt out of targeted ads. But the iss ...
- EU Commissioner Promises Eagle Eye For Privacy Issues
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 24, 2008
European Union Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva said she intends to take a close look at whether behavioral targeting, or showing ads to Web users based on the sites they ha ...
- Study: Marketing Execs Less Confident About Privacy Protection
Online Media Daily, - Monday, June 23, 2008
A new study by the Ponemon Institute shows that marketing executives are less confident that their companies are protecting people's personal information than are corporate privacy officers. About 44% ...
- NebuAd Accused Of Ignoring Online Privacy Basic Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 19, 2008
With lawmakers gearing up to grill online ad executives, advocacy groups Wednesday accused behavioral targeting company NebuAd of violating "several fundamental expectations of Internet privacy." "NebuAd's practices resemble several for ...
- NebuAd: Publisher Pushback In Store?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 19, 2008
Consumer advocates are right to worry that NebuAd's ISP-based targeting platform could potentially spell disaster for privacy. ...
- Undertone Networks Proves Privacy Stance, Joins NAI
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 18, 2008
With online privacy policies increasingly drawing public attention, ad company Undertone Networks has joined the self-regulatory privacy association Network Advertising Initiative, the company said Tuesday. Undertone Networks said the mo ...
- Digital Rights Advocates Target ISP Ad Targeting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 16, 2008
Internet service providers should obtain users' consent before collecting information about their Web-surfing activity for ad purposes, the digital rights group Center for Democracy and Technology
said last week. ...
- EU's Online Privacy Hearing Follows Senate's Next Week
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 13, 2008
U.S. lawmakers aren't the only ones concerned about whether online advertising violates people's privacy. Regulators in Europe are also turning their attention to the issue. In the latest development, t ...
- IAB Strikes Back At Empire State
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Interactive Advertising Bureau is stepping up its campaign against a pending New York law that would regulate online advertising. In its latest move, the organization announced a new, discount ...
- Once Again, EEF Works To Protects Anonymity Online
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 5, 2008
Larry Dominick, the president of the town of Cicero, Ill., has apparently joined the ranks of thin-skinned officials distressed by online remarks about him.... ...
- Advocates Target ISP Working With Phorm
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 30, 2008
Behavioral targeting company Phorm hasn't launched yet, but is already facing more pushback than even the staunchest privacy advocates likely anticipated. The latest news is that Phorm opponent Alex Han ...
- CDT: Consider Privacy When Designing Watermarks
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 29, 2008
Companies developing digital watermarking should put people's privacy interests front and center when designing applications, the Center for Democracy & Technology is urging today. ...
- Zango Scrutinized In New Report From Spyware Researcher
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Adware company Zango is arguing in federal court it's been a good corporate citizen since settling a Federal Trade Commission complaint in 2006. But spyware researcher Ben Edelman will unve ...
- NAI-Google Tiff Clouds Real Privacy Issues
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
There are many reasons to be concerned by Google's privacy policy. But the fact that the company doesn't link to it on its home page isn't one of them. ...
- Lawmaker Voices Privacy Concerns In Letter To Google
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 23, 2008
A high-ranking lawmaker is pressuring Google to address privacy issues stemming from its acquisition of DoubleClick earlier this year. In a letter sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt this wee ...
- Software Attempts To Foil Data Harvesting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 23, 2008
Privacy advocates are stepping up the pressure on behavioral targeting company Phorm. A group calling itself AntiPhorm.com this week released a program aimed at interfering with Phorm's ability to harve ...
- Lawmakers Ask ISP Not To Share Data With NebuAd
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 19, 2008
Two lawmakers asked Internet service provider Charter Communications Friday to put the brakes on its plan to share data about consumers' Web-surfing habits with behavioral targeting company NebuAd. Rep. ...
- Feds Indict Adult In MySpace Suicide
Online Media Daily, - Friday, May 16, 2008
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have obtained an indictment against Lori Drew, a Missouri woman who allegedly helped create a MySpace account that was used to harass a 13-year-old gi ...
- Charter Will Provide NebuAd With Users' Web Habits Info
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 15, 2008
Internet service provider Charter Communications will provide information about users' Web-surfing habits to controversial behavioral targeting company NebuAd, which will use that data to serve people Web ads. Charter, whi ...
- Every Breath We Take
Media Magazine, kyle , Daisy Whitney - Wednesday, April 2, 2008
A dark shadow might have fallen across his face when he heard the question. "Of course I am concerned about Nielsen," says Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center f ...
- Bell Canada Accused Of Privacy Violations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
A public interest group in Canada has filed a complaint asking the country's privacy commissioner to investigate Bell Canada for allegedly managing Internet traffic in a way that violates user ...
- Court Orders Facebook To Disclose IP Address Of Fake Profile Creator
Online Media Daily, - Tuesday, May 13, 2008
A judge in Indianapolis has ordered Facebook to disclose the IP address of a user who created a fake profile of a school principal. The principal, Dean Tim Puntarelli ...
- Canadians Willing To Let Employers See Facebook Profiles
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Thursday, May 8, 2008
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