- FTC's Brill: Mobile Privacy Practices 'In Desperate Need Of Reform'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 27, 2011
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill today reiterated her support for a universal do-not-tra ...
- OpenFeint Sued For Misappropriating Mobile Gamers' Data
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 23, 2011
Mobile gaming company OpenFeint and its parent company, GREE International, have be ...
- GroupM Sets Mobile Privacy Rules
Online Media Daily, Mark Walsh - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
GroupM has introduced new mobile privacy guidelines for publishers aimed at limiti ...
- Chitika To Destroy Data To Settle FTC Probe
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with ad network Chitik ...
- Supreme Court Rules For Data-Mining In Vermont
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 23, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court today sided with data mining companies who h ...
- Havas: BT Industry Could Face Same Fate As Adware Companies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A new report about privacy by Havas Digital makes the extraordinary cla ...
- Pondering A Privacy-Free World
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Amid a proliferation of Web-connected recording devices and image-tagging tools, The N ...
- Companies Can Keep Your Social Media Content for Seven Years
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hopefully most people now understand that anything they put in their soci ...
- Connecticut A.G. Says Face Recognition Should Be Opt-In
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 17, 2011
Facebook's new tagging technology, which automatically recognizes users' faces and suggests the ...
- Google Me On The Web
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 17, 2011
Google launched a dashboard that allows people to monitor what has be ...
- Facebook Sued For Tracking People With 'Like' Button
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 14, 2011
In the latest of a series of privacy lawsuits against Facebook, t ...
- Sens. Franken And Blumenthal Unveil Law Limiting Location-Tracking
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Reports about location-tracking via iPhones, iPads and Android devices already have spark ...
- Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint About Face Recognition
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, June 12, 2011
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and other advocacy groups are asking t ...
- Android Location-Tracking Research Spurs Privacy Suits
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 10, 2011
Google was hit this week with the latest in a string ...
- Will Facebook Be Called To Capitol Hill Over Face Recognition?
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 13, 2011
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is joining the Electronic Privacy Information Center a ...
- How Secure Are Popular Apps?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, June 9, 2011
Apps developed by LinkedIn, Netflix, Foursquare and payment platform Square, Inc. a ...
- What Happens In Public Stays Public: Facial Recognition Is About Publicity, Not Privacy
Online Spin, Dave Morgan - Thursday, June 9, 2011
As you may have read, Facebook has integrated facial recognition technology in ...
- You Can't Spell Privacy Without Piracy
Publishing Insider, Ari Rosenberg - Thursday, June 9, 2011
Privacy is a word representing all of us in the court ...
- Surprise, Facebook Is In Trouble Again
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Thursday, June 9, 2011
Like Groundhog Day and taxes, it's becoming an annual (if not semi-annua ...
- Facebook Faces New Wave Of Criticism For Automatic Photo-Tagging
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 8, 2011
When Facebook began rolling out a tool in the U.S. last Decemb ...
- CenturyTel Obtains Mixed Ruling In Ad Targeting Suit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 6, 2011
A federal judge has dismissed a portion of a potential class-action lawsu ...
- Google's $8.5M Buzz Settlement Approved
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 1, 2011
A federal judge has approved an $8.5 million settlement of a class-acti ...
- Report: Web Publishers 'Leak' Personal, Sensitive Info
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Many of the most popular online publishers are leaking readers' names, addresse ...
- Privacy Site Guides Mobile Developers
Online Media Daily, - Friday, May 27, 2011
The industry-funded think tank Future of Privacy Forum on Thursday launched ...
- Judge Orders Unprotesting Twitter User Unmasked
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Last week, a California judge ordered Twitter to reveal information that identifi ...
- Senator Franken Asks Google, Apple To Require App Privacy Policies
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 26, 2011
When companies violate their privacy policies by, say, selling data about consume ...
- U.K. Gag Order Can't Halt 'Streisand Effect'
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Judges in the U.S. don't impose gag orders all that often, a ...
- Lawsuit Against Spokeo Allowed To Proceed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 23, 2011
A Virginia resident may move forward with a lawsuit against online da ...
- User Seeks To Revive Flash Cookie Suit Against Specific Media
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 20, 2011
In an attempt to revive a potential class-action lawsuit against ad netwo ...
- Appellate Court Rules In Favor Of Online Anonymity
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 23, 2011
Last year, vacation resort chain Sandals unsuccessfully attempted to discover the identi ...