- Vanity Searcher Can Proceed With Lawsuit Against Google
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 30, 2012
In a blow to Google, a federal judge has refused to dismi ...
- Facebook Says Data Goes Underused On Most Web Sites
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Friday, March 30, 2012
Speaking at Facebook's first event dedicated to UK marketers, Christian Hernandez-Gallardo, direct ...
- Yahoo To Honor Do-Not-Track Headers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 29, 2012
Yahoo said it will stop sending customized ads and content to consume ...
- Static Privacy Legislation Dangerous In Dynamic Digital Age
Online Spin, Kaila Colbin - Friday, March 30, 2012
I agree that an employer should never ask you for your Facebo ...
- Sen. Franken: Consumers Lose Choices When Companies Get Too Big
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 30, 2012
Count Al Franken among the critics of Google's new privacy policy. ...
- House GOP Kills Facebook Privacy Amendment
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, March 29, 2012
Attempting to give Facebook users some semblance of security, Democratic lawmakers ...
- IAB Voices Concern About Regulating 'Data Brokers'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission's call for new restrictions on data brokers cou ...
- House Republicans 'Skeptical' About Privacy Proposals
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Obama Administration and the Federal Trade Commission recently issued privacy repor ...
- Panel Urges Law To Make Google Censor Material
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Google is under fire in the MPs' report into privacy for faili ...
- RockYou Agrees To $250K Fine To Settle COPPA Charges
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Social game developer RockYou has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle charg ...
- ICO Warns UK Firms Not To Seek Facebook Passwords
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Following reports of such demands in the U.S., the Information Commissioner's Offi ...
- FTC Supports Right To Opt Out Of Data Collection By Ad Networks
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 26, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission is urging the ad industry to continue effor ...
- AVG Builds In Do Not Track Default Into Internet Security Software
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 27, 2012
AVG Technologies has added a default do-not-track feature in its Internet securi ...
- Parliament To Uphold Privacy Injunctions
Around the Net In OMD Europe, Nina Lentini - Monday, March 26, 2012
This week, the joint Commons and Lords committee is expected to recomme ...
- Senators Call For DOJ Probe Of Facebook-Snooping
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 26, 2012
If anything's become clear in the last week, it's that many peop ...
- Google Sued For 'Unquestionably Invasive' New Privacy Policy
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 22, 2012
Google was hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for changing its priva ...
- Paying Not To Get Ads
Online Media Daily, George Simpson - Friday, March 23, 2012
In a blog post this past week, a reporter for the N ...
- Facebook Tells Job Applicants To Keep Passwords To Themselves
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 23, 2012
A report this week that some employers are asking job applicants f ...
- Mozilla To Encrypt Google Search Traffic
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Last year, Google said it would start encrypting some search traffic f ...
- New HDTVs Privacy Threat?
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Do viewers of Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs have reas ...
- Most U.K. Web Users Worry About Privacy Online
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Nine out of 10 Web users in the U.K. (90%) say th ...
- Risky Business: Companies Ask Job Applicants For Facebook Log-Ins
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
In 2009, news broke that the city of Bozeman, Montana was aski ...
- Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords
The Social Graf, Erik Sass - Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Intrusive much? Just in case I wasn't disturbed enough by the surv ...
- Former Rutgers Student Found Guilty Of Webcam Privacy, Hate Crime
Online Media Daily, Fern Siegel - Friday, March 16, 2012
Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi was convicted on Friday of committing ...
- EU Official 'Deeply Regrets' Google's New Privacy Policy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 19, 2012
It seems that European authorities are still peeved with Google for rolli ...
- Another Day, Another Govt Google Probe
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, March 16, 2012
Whatever became of those reports that Google was bypassing the privacy settin ...
- Federal Prosecutor ID'd Through Web Posts
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 16, 2012
Privacy experts have long said that even anonymous Web users sometimes lea ...
- Smartphone Users Sue Over Address-Book Uploads
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Thirteen smartphone users have filed a potential class-action lawsuit against a sl ...
- Microsoft Targets Health Ads Based On Consumers' Web Activity
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Microsoft has updated its privacy policy to specify that it serves health-relat ...
- Lawmakers Request Meeting With Apple Over Privacy
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Last month, shortly after news broke that app developers were gathering iPho ...