- TruEffect Behavioral Targeting Still Has Flaws
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Online ad-serving company TruEffect today will officially launch a new behavioral targeting service it's touting as relatively protective of consumer privacy. But advocates say the company's product, DirectServe, raises ...
- Just An Online Minute... Privacy Issues Still Dog Google/Click Deal
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Google's plan to acquire DoubleClick might have gotten the nod from the Federal Trade Commission, but European authorities seem troubled by the deal's implications for people's privacy. ...
- Just An Online Minute... MySpace's Problematic Safety Plan
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
After weathering years of accusations that sexual predators use MySpace to find young victims, the site has announced a purported safety agreement with 49 states. But some aspects of th ...
- MySpace Takes Measures To Protect Children
Online Media Daily, - Tuesday, January 15, 2008
MySpace has reached an agreement with 49 states and the District of Columbia aimed at protecting minors from online predators, the company announced Monday. The agreement includes allowing parents ...
- No Happy Birthday Notices On Facebook?
Feedback Loop, - Friday, January 11, 2008
This is very interesting. There is another issue that you don't raise in the article, and that is whether or not sites like Facebook can/should protect user information from people/organizatio ...
- Just An Online Minute... Facebook Continues To Face Privacy Challenges
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 11, 2008
In an interview set to air Sunday night, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told "60 Minutes" that Facebook's controversial Beacon program "is going to be a really good thing." ...
- Sears Exposes Consumer Data, Faces $5M Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 7, 2008
Sears Roebuck was caught in a major online privacy breach late last week, just days after news surfaced that it was distributing spyware on behalf of comScore. Researcher Ben Edelm ...
- Just An Online Minute... Facebook Penalizes Blogger For Scraping
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 3, 2008
Blogger Robert Scoble had a run-in with Facebook that resulted last night in his account being disabled. Scoble's offense, apparently, was to attempt to use bots to gather information abo ...
- Google Takes Google Reader Public
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Ross Fadner - Wednesday, December 26, 2007
It may sound un-Google, but it's true: Google Reader users today are complaining about a recently introduced feature that automatically shares items with everyone in your Gmail account. In oth ...
- IAB Says It Will Help FTC Refine Privacy Principles, and Propose Its Own in '08
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 24, 2007
The Interactive Advertising Bureau weighed in on the Federal Trade Commission's new proposed privacy principles, stating that it endorses the idea of industry self-regulation, but wants to help refine the ...
- Herd Of Privacy Elephants
Feedback Loop, - Thursday, December 20, 2007
Elephant in the room???? How 'bout a herd of 'em! When I think of how unbridled and undisciplined these social network sites are -- including so-called business networking sites li ...
- A Forehead-Smacking Idea
Feedback Loop, - Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mark [Simon, the Search Insider columnist]: To steal a line from "When Harry Met Sally," I'll have whatever you're having! This is one of those forehead-smacking, light-bulb-over-the-head moments I lov ...
- Just An Online Minute... Blogger Settles Suit With Apple
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 21, 2007
Nick Ciarelli, a college student at Harvard who published the blog Think Secret, has agreed to shutter it to settle a lawsuit with Apple. ...
- FTC Proposes Online Privacy Principles
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 21, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission Thursday issued proposed new privacy principles that could lead to significant changes in how Web companies notify consumers about online ad techniques. ...
- The Facebook Lesson: Privacy Does Matter!
Email Insider, Loren McDonald - Thursday, December 20, 2007
Now that Facebook has done an about-face on Beacon, its shopping application that let users broadcast purchases they made from site advertisers to anyone on their friends' lists, I real ...
- Just An Online Minute... One Hurdle Down: FTC Approves GoogleClick
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 20, 2007
Despite opposition from some consumer groups and privacy advocates, as well as Google rival Microsoft, the Federal Trade Commission this morning approved Google's $3.1 billion merger with DoubleClick. ...
- Let's Monetize Privacy!
Inside Performance, Mark Simon - Monday, December 17, 2007
The issue of privacy has long been the online industry's proverbial "elephant in the room," the big looming animal that everybody knows is there but that no one is willi ...
- Just An Online Minute... Other Shoe In Facebook Snafu: Video Rental Privacy
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Even though Facebook has retreated from its controversial Beacon program, which broadcasts news about members' online purchases to their friends, the fallout from the program is only just beginning. T ...
- Ask.com's AskEraser Deletes Data, But Also Reduces User Personalization
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
As promised in July, IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s Ask.com has rolled out AskEraser, a feature that lets users control whether they leave a trail of search data with the engine. Once activated, AskEras ...
- Just An Online Minute... Big Guns Unlikely To Copy Ask's Privacy Advances
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 11, 2007
As promised this summer, IAC has rolled out some privacy enhancements to its Ask.com search engine. With the program, AskEraser, users will be able to delete future search queries a ...
- Texas Accuses Web Marketers Of Targeting Children Unlawfully
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 7, 2007
As legislators and regulators take a closer look at online advertising, Texas this week became the first state to charge Web companies with violating a 1998 federal law that restric ...
- Just An Online Minute... Facebook Apologizes For Major Faux Pas
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 6, 2007
After weeks of criticism, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday finally apologized for the controversial Beacon program, which publishes information about members' off-site purchases to their friends. The company also chang ...
- Facebook Pulls In Beacon Program Again
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 6, 2007
Under ongoing pressure from privacy advocates, Facebook Wednesday made its second significant retreat in one week from its controversial new Beacon program. Users will now be able to permanently o ...
- EU Calls for Closer Look at Privacy and Social Networks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 5, 2007
An arm of the European Union Tuesday called for a closer look at whether practices at social networking sites violate users' privacy. In a 32-page report, "Security Issues and Recommendatio ...
- MySpace's 'HyperTargeting' Ad Program Off To A Strong Start
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Tuesday, December 4, 2007
While touting early results of MySpace's behavioral ad platform, which launched last month, FIM Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett also assured a packed room at the UBS 35th Annual Glob ...
- Just An Online Minute... Advocates Rally For Web Anonymity
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 3, 2007
This weekend, The New York Times condemned Yahoo for having revealed the identities of two Chinese dissidents to the authorities, resulting in their jailing.... ...
- Facebook Turnaround On Privacy Could Signal Wave of Change
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 3, 2007
Facebook's U-turn late last week on publishing information about members' purchases could mark the beginning of a wave of changes to online ad techniques. European regulators are expected to announ ...
- Right-Thinking Data Use?
Feedback Loop, - Thursday, November 29, 2007
I work in the data-based customer insight business. We have three cardinal rules around how data can be used: 1) It must be used in a way that is actiuve ...
- Search And The Moral Imperative
Inside Performance, Kaila Colbin - Friday, November 30, 2007
Large corporations continue to compile ever-larger databases of our personal information. China's irresistible economic pull causes organizations and governments to tactfully overlook moral objections. Facebook tells my friends if ...
- Just An Online Minute... Facebook Opts-In To Handling Privacy Concerns
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 30, 2007
Facebook late last night agreed to fix the most glaring privacy problem posed by its new Beacon program, which tells members about their friends' online purchases. ...
