- Spokeo Wants Ruling On Privacy Allegations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Data aggregator Spokeo is trying to put the brakes on a priva ...
- Companies Resort To Browser 'Hacks' To Track Cookie-Deleters
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 1, 2011
For years, people who wanted to avoid online tracking have regularly delet ...
- 'Gmail Man' Snoops In Messages, Targets Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 29, 2011
Consumer advocates have hoped for a long time that Web companies wou ...
- Report Details How Trackers Can Learn Users' Names
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 28, 2011
Earlier this month, the Stanford Center for Internet & Society's Jonathan May ...
- Waxman V. Rothenberg
Publishing Insider, David Koretz - Thursday, July 28, 2011
The current fight about self-regulation of consumer privacy between Representative Henry Waxm ...
- Say Media Settles Flash Cookie Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Say Media will pay almost $1 million to settle a class-action lawsu ...
- Web Users Uneasy With Behavioral Targeting
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
A sizable proportion of U.S. Web users are uncomfortable with online tracki ...
- Facebook, Connecticut A.G. Settle Differences Over Facial Recognition
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 26, 2011
When Facebook launched its facial recognition feature last month, the company spurr ...
- Netflix: Privacy Law Prevents Facebook Integration
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 25, 2011
Netflix told shareholders today that a 23-year-old privacy law is "discouraging" ...
- Groupon Privacy Rules Draw Congressional Attention
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Groupon's recent changes to its privacy policy are drawing scrutiny on Capit ...
- Report: Epic Using 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Epic Marketplace is using history-sniffing techniques to collect information about users' W ...
- NAI To Probe Epic Marketplace's 'History-Sniffing' Techniques
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
Several years ago, before renaming itself Epic Advertising, the online ad compa ...
- Appeals Court To Decide Whether Google Violated Wiretap Laws
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 21, 2011
A federal judge has granted Google's request to recommend that the 9 ...
- Reputation.com Rakes In $41M Round
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Ready to expand it online privacy services, Reputation.com has raised a $ ...
- Advocates: Marketers Need Teen Consent For Online Info
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 19, 2011
A coalition of health organizations and advocacy groups say that marketers shou ...
- Evidon Starts 'Certifying' Ad Network Clients
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 18, 2011
Evidon is rolling out a new program to "certify" some of i ...
- Waxman: Privacy Self-Regulation Not Working
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 14, 2011
The online ad industry's voluntary measures to protect consumers' privacy are falli ...
- Report: Ad Networks' Privacy Policies Still Problematic
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 15, 2011
Earlier this week, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer posted preliminary results of ...
- Ad Networks Continue Tracking Users Who Opt Out
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Almost half of the companies that belong to the self-regulatory group Netwo ...
- Google Seeks To Appeal WiFi Ruling
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 12, 2011
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in San Jose, Calif. recently issu ...
- Quantcast To Distribute 'You-Are-Being-Tracked' Icons
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Quantcast will start distributing the you-are-being-tracked icons to free to small publishe ...
- Anti-Piracy Bill Could Hurt Online Advertising
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
A proposed anti-piracy bill pending in the Senate could make it difficu ...
- Gmail User Deletes Bank's Email Before Account 'Deactivated'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 5, 2011
The Gmail user who was mistakenly sent confidential records by Rocky Mounta ...
- AOL Suit Alleges Flash Cookies Invaded Privacy, Violate Wiretap Laws
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 1, 2011
In the latest of a string of lawsuits about online tracking, ...
- Google Can Be Sued For WiFi Interceptions
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 30, 2011
A federal judge has ruled that consumers can proceed with a potenti ...
- Facebook Wins Round In 'Friend Finder' Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 30, 2011
Handing Facebook a partial victory, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit allegi ...
- The Privacy Monster Under The Internet Bed
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, July 1, 2011
It turns out that 81% of respondents to a Consumer Reports surv ...
- Advocates, Opponents Both Overstate Effects Of Privacy Proposal
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 1, 2011
This week's Senate Commerce Committee hearing about online privacy has led ...
- Sen. Rockefeller Touts Do-Not-Track Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 29, 2011
At a hearing, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W-Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committe ...
- FCC Told That App Developers Lack Incentives To Protect Privacy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Privacy advocates as well as some companies have long expressed support f ...