In Belgium, Google Ponders A $215,000 Fine Over Street View
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Federal regulators in the U.S. are over it, but Google’s Street View privacy gaffe continues to produce headaches in the Europe. The long jo… Read more »
Second Privacy Lawsuit Over ‘Flash Cookies’ Falls Apart
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The Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the state of online privacy, but the agency doesn’t believe it has the legal authority-yet-t… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-18-11: Microsoft vs. Motorola; iPad; Symbian Anna
A look at some of the top stories in mobile today:
» Motorola/Microsoft: Motorola (NYSE: MMI) Mobility gets a setback in a paten… Read more »
FTC Busts App Maker For Collecting Kids’ E-mail Addresses
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Updated with response from app developer. When it comes to privacy law, the exploding world of mobile apps are pretty much the wild west. Th… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-12-11
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» If the current events of the world are scary for all of us, they’re particularly horrifying for news publishers. (Ken Doctor/Ni… Read more »
Number Of Firefox Users Selecting ‘Do Not Track’ Has Quadrupled
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How do you dramatically increase the number of people using a privacy feature in just a few months? Apparently, just by putting it somewhere… Read more »
UK Government Wants Police Empowered To ‘Close’ Twitter, BBM
The UK’s Home Secretary will meet media and social media companies regarding blocking access during emergency situations, in the wake of Eng… Read more »
Murdoch Tells Wall Street: Chase Carey And I Run News Corp As A Team
“The board and I believe I should continue in my current role as chairman and CEO,” Rupert Murdoch said, as he announced News Corp.’s Q4 201… Read more »
The Privacy Startups: A Chat System That Knows How To Forget
More than a decade after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched, we’re all learning that the web has a very long memory. Sometimes it seems too long;… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 08-03-11
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» Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) circulation chief calculates, by platform, the news people will pay for (Poynter/Rick Edmonds)
»&nb… Read more »
Sun Website Users’ Personal Details Hacked
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News International has emailed thousands of people to warn them that one or more hackers have copied personal details of thousands of people… Read more »
The Oddball U.S. Privacy Law That’s Keeping Netflix Away From Facebook
Under U.S. law, most information exchanges aren’t regulated at all by the federal government. There are a few big exceptions, like health in… Read more »
U.S. Investigations Of Phone-Hacking Scandal Unlikely To Move Quickly
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As the heat continues to be on News Corp.’s activities in the U.K., an investigation of any U.S. links is proceeding-albeit very slowly. Any… Read more »
Hacking Loopholes Remain, Consumers Deserve Better
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After an “Arab spring”, it’s been a summer of security breaches. But, while the press, politicians and police chiefs turn themselves inside-… Read more »
Controversial ‘History Sniffing’ Is Back, And Bigger Than Ever
When the practice of browser ‘history sniffing’ was first revealed in December, it spurred headlines and lawsuits, and criticism from a key… Read more »
Google Earnings Preview: All Eyes On Mobile, Social, Local (and Larry)
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Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the compan… Read more »
Verklin Stepping Down As Canoe Ventures’ CEO; Timko To Be Interim CEO
Ad industry veteran David Verklin says he will step down as CEO of Canoe Ventures, the interactive TV joint venture backed by the major cabl… Read more »
Hackers Snatch WaPo Jobs’ Site Usernames, E-Mails
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The Washington Post’s jobs’ site was hacked last week, the company told users in an e-mail note sent last night (via Romenesko). While the p… Read more »
The Privacy Startups: Building A Social Network For The Under-13 Crowd
Part of an occasional series on startups that are focusing on privacy.
For any internet company, crafting privacy rules can be tricky, in p… Read more »
Lawsuit Over Google WiFi Data Breach Will Move Ahead
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) apologized long ago for the accidental collection of personal WiFi data by its Street View cars, but the snafu continues… Read more »
Amazon’s Retargeting Expansion Could Make It A Bigger Display Ad Player
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Amazon’s deal with demand-side platform Triggit will allow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to expand its existing retargeting efforts and despite the nu… Read more »
In Raid Against ‘Scareware’ Fraud, FBI Grabs Bookmarking Companies’ Servers
The FBI portrayed yesterday’s action against a ring of fraudsters pushing “scareware” anti-virus software as a major international action to… Read more »
Europe Wants U.S.-Style ‘Do Not Track’ Standard
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One month after a deadline by which European states must make most kinds of online data collection – including by cookies – opt-in, only fiv… Read more »
Glympse Finds $7.5 Million In Funding For Its Location Sharing App
Are you feeling lost among all the location-sharing apps on the market today? There may be a shakeout to come, but for now the leaders are s… Read more »
The Rise And Fall Of Bitcoin: A Brief History
Bitcoin, the virtual peer-to-peer currency that was launched last year, had a meteoric rise in the last few weeks-but after a hacking attack… Read more »
Google Street View Cameras Halted In India
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Google’s now infamous Street View camera cars only set to work on the streets of Bangalore last month, but already Indian authorities have o… Read more »
European Lawmakers Pressing Social Networks On Privacy, Kids’ Safety
European lawmakers are waving research data under web services’ noses, in their ongoing efforts to legislate safeguards for those who use so… Read more »
Al Franken Introduces First Location Privacy Bill In Senate
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Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) is one of a group of politicians that have been making a lot of noise about digital privacy in the past several… Read more »
The Privacy Startups: Creating A Company In Four Hours
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Part of an occasional series on startups that are focusing on privacy.
Disconnect is a startup that lets users shut off the tracking featur… Read more »
FTC On Data Security: There Oughta Be A (Federal) Law
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In the wake of several recent, headline-grabbing hacking attacks on big companies like Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Citibank, the issue of data secu… Read more »
Judge Approves $2.4 Million Quantcast Privacy Settlement
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So-called “Flash cookies” got some headlines in the online privacy world last year, after some prominent researchers noted that they were so… Read more »
Why Europe Is Right To Keep Facebook & Co. In Check
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Facebook must have been tripping if it thought it could enable automatic photo face-tagging without also automatically tripping the interest… Read more »
Contextual Provider ADmantX Stresses ‘Cookie-Less’ Targeting In First Round
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Has all the talk of regulations and privacy made ad tech firms a little more skittish about the kind of ad targeting they provide? Lest anyo… Read more »
@ D9: Eric Schmidt In The Cold Light Of Day
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Last year at All Things Digital, an annual gathering of senior tech and media executives, Steve Jobs gave a camp in how to handle an on-stag… Read more »
Online Privacy Bill Stalls With 16-16 Vote In California Senate
After a short but intensive bout of lobbying by tech companies, a privacy bill being pushed by a state legislator lost on a 16-16 vote on th… Read more »
Most Apps’ Privacy Policies Continue To Be Missing In Action
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Digital privacy has received a lot of attention in the past year, but one area that stands out as still lacking is the fast-growing world of… Read more »
New EU Rules For Online Tracking Being Delayed–Or Ignored
Today’s deadline day. Member states of the European Union are all supposed to have plans in place to change their laws so that most kinds of… Read more »
What Does Twitter Really Think About Users’ Right To Free Speech?
When Twitter and its users were sued last week for allegedly breaking a UK injunction granting privacy to a British footballer, the service… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-24-11
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» Dish CEO Says DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Merger Possible in Regulatory Environment (Bloomberg)
» Don’t Blame the WSJ for t… Read more »
Startups Join Facebook And Google In Protesting California Privacy Bill
The California Legislature is very late-as usual-with its annual budget. But lawmakers’ inability to pass a budget probably won’t stop them… Read more »
