- Legal Issues Murky When Government, Marketers Mine Data From Social Sites
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 15, 2010
This week, reports from two different sources appeared detailing how information th ...
- Facebook Keeps Privacy Features Comin'
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 13, 2010
In its latest effort to ease privacy concerns, Facebook on Tuesday unveil ...
- Complaint Alleges Facebook Shared Sensitive User Data With Advertisers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A Facebook update earlier this year resulted in the disclosure of user ...
- Lawmakers Blast Legalese-Ridden Privacy Policies
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 10, 2010
Two influential lawmakers said Friday they were concerned that Web companies a ...
- The Forever Cookie: New Tracking Technologies Continue To Threaten Privacy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 11, 2010
In March of 2005, ad technology company United Virtualities boasted that ...
- Ringleader Adds 'Mobile Cookie' Certification For Publishers
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Thursday, October 7, 2010
Mobile ad firm Ringleader Digital has launched a certification program for publishe ...
- Former FTC Staffer Alleges Google Says One Thing, Does Another
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 8, 2010
Privacy expert and former Federal Trade Commission staffer Christopher Soghoian has fil ...
- Facebook's Bid To Organize The Social Graph (And Own The Nascent Platform)
Online Media Daily, John Capone - Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced three new functions that would be rolli ...
- Microsoft, eBay And Intel Praise Rush Privacy Bill
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 6, 2010
A privacy bill proposed by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) requiring Web sit ...
- Facebook Goofs With Opt-Out For Groups
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 7, 2010
There's no question that Facebook's revised Groups feature has much to recomme ...
- iPhone Apps Sending Out Devices' Serial Numbers, Log-In Data
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 5, 2010
The majority of the most popular applications available for iPhones use t ...
- Critics Strike At Google's New 'All-It-Can-Eat' Privacy Policy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 4, 2010
Google's new, streamlined privacy policy, which went into effect on Monday, wi ...
- Industry Group Truste Abandons BT Icon, Adopts DAA Graphic
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 4, 2010
The industry privacy group Truste has abandoned an effort to roll o ...
- Supreme Court Refuses Invasion Of Privacy Claim Against Google's Street View
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 4, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court gave Google some good news today in ...
- Industry Coalition Bows Self-Regulation Info Web Site, Readies New Trade Organization
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 30, 2010
The Interactive Advertising Bureau and other advertising groups behind the industry's self-regulato ...
- Scribd Goofs With Facebook Instant Personalization
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 1, 2010
By and large, people still seem to expect that they can re ...
- The Industry's Landmine: What Consumers Think You Know About Them -- And What You Can Do About It
Metrics Insider, Judah Phillips - Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Cookies! Bad! Beacons! Spying! Tracking! Data! Evil! Seven words summarize the thes ...
- Facebook Face Recognizer Gets Funding
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Thanks to rapid advances in face-recognition technology, we might soon be looki ...
- Privacy (Still) Matters!
Notes from the Digital Frontier, Rashieta - Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Many people in older generations than my own have various stereotypes abo ...
- After Criticism, Scribd Changes Privacy Settings
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 27, 2010
Earlier this year, document-sharing service Scribd quietly rolled out the new featu ...
- About Schmidt: Google CEO Protects Right To Be Funny About Privacy
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, September 27, 2010
It's been nearly a week since Google CEO Eric Schmidt chitchatted wi ...
- Data Broker Refunds Fees Paid For 'Privacy Lock'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Online data broker US Search has settled a Federal Trade Commission complai ...
- Privacy? We're Just Glad You Asked
Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Friday, September 17, 2010
Jim Brock of PrivacyChoice.org discovered something interesting on his way to crafti ...
- IAB Readying Next Phase Of Privacy Self-Regulation: Compliance
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Interactive Advertising Bureau is expected to roll out the next pha ...
- Company Sued Over 'Mobile Cookies'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 16, 2010
Three California residents have sued mobile ad technology company Ringleader Digital f ...
- Web Monitoring Software Co. To Pay $100k For Privacy Violation
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 16, 2010
Last year, the Electronic Privacy Information Center alleged in a Federal Tra ...
- Google Fires Engineer Over Privacy Breach
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Amid mounting government scrutiny over consumer privacy, Google has fired a softwa ...
- Web Sites With Truste Seal Of Approval Get Second Look
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 14, 2010
More than 100 Web sites that carry a Truste privacy seal cou ...
- Judge Rules ISP Subscribers Have No Expectation Of Privacy, Allows Filmmakers To Unmask P2P File Sharers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 13, 2010
A federal judge has okayed independent filmmakers' attempts to unmask thousands ...
- Privacy Snafu As Web Sites Bypass Cookie-Blockers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 10, 2010
Last year, researchers at UC Berkeley documented that some Web companies appear ...