- Do Users Read Privacy Policies? Answer Could Help Decide Wilkileaks/Twitter Case
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 28, 2011
If every U.S. Web user read the privacy policy at every si ...
- FTC Official: Cases Against Twitter, Chitika Provide Roadmap To Privacy Enforcement
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 25, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission seems to have stepped up its privacy enforceme ...
- Kerry Privacy Bill Could Impose 'Major' Obligations On Ad Networks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 23, 2011
A draft of privacy legislation floated by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) wou ...
- Google's Street View Cleared In Germany
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 21, 2011
Google has just received mixed news about Street View from European authoritie ...
- Close-Up: Netflix Hit With Privacy Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 17, 2011
Netflix has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly breaki ...
- Obama Admin Advocates For Online Privacy Bill of Rights
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, March 16, 2011
At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington, the Obama Administrati ...
- Coalition Of Online Ad Companies Urges Support For Firefox Do-Not-Track Headers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 17, 2011
When Mozilla said last year that it was going to include ...
- Privacy Backlash Spurs Etsy To Revise New Social-Networking Feature
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Faced with accusations that it violated users' privacy, online marketplace Etsy retreat ...
- Twitter Growth Skyrockets, Settles Privacy Case With FTC
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 14, 2011
Twitter released substantial growth statistics Monday demonstrating the company's climb to t ...
- Commerce's Strickling To Say Administration Supports Baseline Privacy Regs
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Microsoft has added another privacy feature to Internet Explorer 9: A do-not-tra ...
- Specific Media Asks Court To Dismiss Flash-Cookie Tracking Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 11, 2011
The ad network Specific Media says that a lawsuit accusing it ...
- Browsing Privacy's Next Steps
Data and Targeting Insider, Steve Smith - Friday, March 11, 2011
It is going to be a busy season on the privacy protecti ...
- Google Sued For Violating Wiretap Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 10, 2011
Google has been hit with a second potential class-action lawsuit for alleged ...
- Senators: Facebook's App Plan Could Expose Users To Identity Theft
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 11, 2011
Four U.S. senators warned Facebook this week that the company could expo ...
- FTC Pushes Industry To Protect Consumer Privacy
MediaDailyNews, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 8, 2011
David Vladeck, director of the bureau of consumer protection, Federal Trade Commissio ...
- Stearns' Privacy Bill Calls For Self-Regulation, FTC Oversight
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 7, 2011
Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) said that he intends to introduce privacy legislati ...
- Book It: Amazon In Legal Trouble Over Privacy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 4, 2011
Amazon has been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly circumventi ...
- Sony Allowed To Learn IP Addresses of Hacker's Visitors
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 7, 2011
A federal judge in California has issued a ruling that should ala ...
- Indiana Judge Rules Newspapers Must Unmask Commenter
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 4, 2011
A judge in Indiana has ruled that two newspapers must turn ov ...
- Users In Facebook Suit Claim Their Data Has A Price
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Shortly after Facebook was sued for allegedly leaking users' names via referr ...
- IAB Members Must Publicly Affirm Privacy Principles
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 28, 2011
The Interactive Advertising Bureau's leadership has voted to require all members ...
- Google's Latest Privacy Flub: Asking Kids For Partial SS Numbers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 25, 2011
For at least the fourth time since last January, Google is faci ...
- Opting Out Of Providing Information About Me
Data and Targeting Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 23, 2011
On a recent visit to the hospital for a routine check-up, ...
- Research Reveals Online Privacy Is Situational: Consumers Concerned With Transparency, Control
Online Media Daily, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The debate surrounding privacy is shaping policies and, potentially even laws, th ...
- Biz Groups: Mandate Will Undercut Self-Reg Program
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 18, 2011
Do-not-track legislation is unnecessary because current industry's self-regulatory program already calls f ...
- Privacy By Design: Best Practices For A TV Industry In Transition
TV Board, Mark Lieberman - Monday, February 21, 2011
Online advertising has been coming under a good degree of scrutiny latel ...
- Spokeo Charged With Violating Fair Credit Reporting Act
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 17, 2011
Virginia resident Thomas Robins is trying for a second time to bri ...
- Apple Sued For Violating iPhone, IPad Privacy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Apple was hit this week with a fourth potential class-action lawsuit f ...
- Wieser Steps Down As Interpublic's Top Ad Seer, Becomes CMO Of 'Targeted TV' Ad Developer Simulmedia
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 16, 2011
They don't make ad industry seers the way they used to. Le ...
- Google Wants Case About Leaked Name Dismissed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 14, 2011
Google is urging a federal court to dismiss a privacy lawsuit fil ...