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| 7/16/2008 |
NebuAd Faces More Congressional Scrutiny |
Online Media Daily |
Wendy Davis |
Members of Congress continue looking at the potential privacy ramifications of behavioral targeting practices. |
| 7/7/2008 |
CAN-SPAM updates take effect |
DMNews |
Diana Dilworth |
Updates to the CAN-SPAM Act, including a mandate that marketers make opt-out a one-step process, went into effect this week. The updates were designed to clarify ambiguity in the 2003 law, and DM News reports the marketing community has embraced the changes. |
| 5/16/2008 |
WhitePages.com grapples with privacy in a Web 2.0 world |
Computerworld |
Steven Vaughan-Nichols |
A Computerworld report highlights the next steps for Whitepages.com, provider of online phone book-style listings, which include both increased social-networking capabilities and added features to let the 180 million people listed on the site manage the privacy of their information. |
| 5/15/2008 |
Most don't know personal data can be sold |
San Francisco Chronicle |
Deborah Gage |
A survey of 1,000 Californians finds that most are unaware of how businesses are using and selling their personal data. |
| 5/14/2008 |
Charter will monitor customers web surfing to target ads |
New York Times |
Saul Hansell |
Providing an enhanced user experience and a healthy bottom line is the impetus behind Charter Communications' foray into the behavioral targeting market. |
| 5/12/2008 |
FTC to scrutinize contactless payment technology |
Network World |
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced a town hall meeting for the purpose of looking into the security and privacy implications of contactless payment systems that utilize radio frequency identification. |
| 5/12/2008 |
FTC Approves New Rule Provision under the CAN-SPAM Act |
Federal Trade Commission |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved four new rule provisions to clarify requirements of the CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003). The new rule provisions address four topics, including modifying the definitions of the terms "sender" and "person," and tightening restrictions on what companies can and cannot require of e-mail recipients who opt-out of future emails. |
| 5/6/2008 |
Loopt's Brian Knapp: Mapping Out a Proactive Privacy Strategy |
E-Commerce News |
Rachelle Crum |
Staying ahead of the curve on user privacy is essential to Brian Knapp, who has worked to build relationships with privacy-related organizations in an effort to take Loopt, the mobile mapping company, "up a level" when it comes to user privacy. |
| 5/6/2008 |
Groups Complain to FTC About Mobile Marketing |
Online Media Daily |
Jeffrey Chester |
Two groups have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission against mobile marketers. The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group announced their intent to protest mobile marketing early in the industry's development in an attempt to influence policy before marketers abuse the medium as they believe online marketers did before. |
| 4/24/2008 |
E-Contracting Wrap-Up: One Hit, Three Errors |
bnablog |
Thoms O'Toole |
Adware vendor Direct Revenue on March 12 turned back a lawsuit filed by the New York State Attorney General based on the strength of the company's end user license agreement (EULA). |
| 4/17/2008 |
Privacy Advocates: Consumer Education Isn't Enough |
PC World |
Grant Gross |
Two more advocacy groups have signed on to the notion that Congress should pass "do not track" legislation to protect consumers from having data gathered about their online habits. |
| 4/8/2008 |
Microsoft-Yahoo: The Privacy Issue |
Business Week |
David Holtzman |
In a Viewpoint piece, Holtzman discusses the anticipated Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo in terms of the privacy concerns that will result as Microsoft forays into the world of identity management. Holtzman raises questions about how, as the two companies combine, the vast amount of consumers' personal data on Yahoo will be used, and for how long it will be retained, among other questions. |
| 3/31/2008 |
Web surfers know advertisers are watching - and don't like it |
ARS Technica |
Jacqui Cheng |
According to a recent poll conducted by TNS Global on behalf of TRUSTe, nearly 3/4 of U.S. consumers know that data is being collected about them when they are online, 57 percent of them aren't happy about it. |
| 3/28/2008 |
TRUSTe Report Reveals Consumer Awareness and Attitudes About Behavioral Targeting |
Marketwire.com |
Morgan McDowell |
Consumer privacy specialist TRUSTe released results of a study to determine how American Internet users feel about behavioral targeting and its impact on their personal privacy. |
| 3/28/2008 |
Phones Will Soon Tell Where You Are |
Wall Street Journal |
AMOL SHARMA and JESSICA E. VASCELLARO |
Until now, privacy and liability concerns have restrained cellular carriers from offering up real-time location tracking services via their GPS-enabled phones. But with a generation of young people clamoring for still more ways to stay connected with friends, carriers are weighing potential risks against potential sales and are cautiously bringing the feature to market. |
| 3/17/2008 |
David Lazarus: Next lines of cell phones have privacy implications |
FresnoBee.com |
David Lazarus |
As California considers bills to address the use of RFID, wireless phone makers continue implementing RFID technology into cell phones, in a move that will technologically "tag" nearly everyone, eventually. |
| 3/11/2008 |
Google Finalizes $3.1 Bilion Double Click Acquisition |
Information Week |
Thomas Claburn |
With Tuesday's okay by regulators in the European Union, Google has cleared the final hurdle in its pending acquisition of online advertising metrics group DoubleClick. |
| 1/31/2008 |
Company Combines Voter And Consumer Data |
Wired |
Kim Zetter |
At the height of the presidential primary season, a Wired article tells the story of data aggregator Aristotle, which for nearly twenty years has been combining voter registration data with information from other sources to provide highly detailed voter lists to campaign strategists. |
| 1/12/2008 |
Proposed Mass. Privacy Laws Too Costly, Businesses Say |
The Boston Globe |
Ross Kerber |
New privacy laws proposed in Massachusetts by the Deval Patrick administration and designed to protect consumers from compromised personal and credit data drew sharp criticism from business groups. |
| 1/9/2008 |
Consumers Not Just Getting Mad, They're Getting Even |
Business Week.com |
Catherine Holahan |
More privacy headaches for Sears.In the wake of a class action lawsuit for privacy violations stemming from a security flaw in its managemyhome.com Web site, Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society has charged that Sears Holdings, parent of retailers Sears and Kmart, has not sufficiently disclosed the purpose for a software application download required to join its online community. |
| 12/18/2007 |
FTC Settles Complaint With Online Seller Of Telephone Records |
PC World |
Grant Gross |
The FTC has settled a complaint with CEO Group, which does business as Check Em Out. The settlement bars the company and its operator, Scott Joseph, from marketing or selling telephone records. |
