- Identity Thieves Also Steal Brand Equity
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Thursday, March 20, 2008
[Retail] "These thefts zap trust," says Ken Banks, of KAB Consulting, a marketing and brand consultant in Seminole, Fla. "If people feel they can't trust a store with basic financi ...
- Just An Online Minute... Facebook Adds Privacy Controls, IM
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Facebook has added new privacy tools that give members the ability to decide which other users can view photos, phone numbers and other personal information. ...
- Facebook Gives Users Greater Privacy Controls
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Facebook Tuesday said it would give users more control over who can view their photos, contact information and other data. The social networking site said it will allow people ...
- ValueClick Tests Predictive Analysts In Behavioral Targeting
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 19, 2008
[Mobile] HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- ValueClick Media said Tuesday at the OMMA Hollywood conference it has built an applications platform to offer advertisers behavioral targeting based on predictive analytics. The compa ...
- EU Clears Google/DoubleClick Deal
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Google completed its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Tuesday, just hours after the European authorities gave the company the final clearance it needed for the deal. With the merger, fir ...
- Just An Online Minute... Zuckerberg: More Beacon Apologies
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 10, 2008
Facebook's ill-fated Beacon program continues to dog CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who apologized for the effort again, last night at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Tex. ...
- Correction: Microsoft Deletes IP Logs After 18 Months
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The article
Search Engines Face New Privacy Restrictions misstated the length of time companies keep IP logs. Microsoft said recently it will delete IP logs after 18 months, whi ...
- IAB Approves, Releases Ad Privacy Guidelines
Online Media Daily, Joe Mandese - Monday, February 25, 2008
With concerns mounting over access and usage of consumer data, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Sunday unveiled new interactive advertising privacy guidelines that are designed to ensure users' control ov ...
- Search Engines Face New Privacy Restrictions
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 25, 2008
[Search] In a move that could force search engines to change how they operate, an arm of the EU has ruled that companies that collect users' Internet Protocol addresses mu ...
- Just An Online Minute... Google Health Records Set Off Privacy Alarms
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 21, 2008
Google today unveiled a pilot program that enables people to store and share information about their medical conditions online. ...
- Just An Online Minute... Wikileaks Has Last Laugh
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 19, 2008
In a case that has free speech advocates fuming, a federal district court judge in San Francisco issued an order directing the site Wikileaks, which hosts "secret" documents submitted ...
- Just An Online Minute... More Privacy Complaints -- But Facebook Reacts Quickly This Time
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 14, 2008
Confronted with yet another privacy debacle, Facebook this week revised its site to make it easier for members to delete their profiles. ...
- Report: EU To Curb Search Engines
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 13, 2008
European authorities are reportedly poised to impose new limits on how long search engines can retain data tying users to search queries. ...
- FTC Asked Again To Investigate Ask.com's AskEraser
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 11, 2008
A leading privacy group late last week pressed forward with its complaint about Ask.com's controversial new tool aimed at protecting the privacy of search queries, despite opposition from another promine ...
- Man The Liferafts!
Feedback Loop, - Friday, February 1, 2008
Beacon 2.0 for Facebook makes me think of Iceberg 2.0 for the Titanic. Man the liferafts! ...
- Just An Online Minute... Marketing Execs Puzzle Over Privacy Issues
Just An Online Minute, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 31, 2008
When it comes to online privacy, predicting just how much data the typical consumer is willing to give up is proving to be a daunting task. But, thanks to Faceboo ...
- 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. ...
