Commerce Department Calls For New Privacy Office
In a followup to its recent call for the creation of a new privacy “czar” in the goverment, the Obama adminsitration today said it wants a f… Read more »
As Regulatory Scrutiny Intensfies, Ad Targeter eXelate Adds To Second Round
The behavioral targeting business is looking as challenged as it ever has these days, considering the recent developments coming out of Wash… Read more »
Government Needs A Warrant To Look At Private E-mails, Court Rules
When it comes to law-enforcement investigations, the government has long treated e-mail differently than telephone and postal communications… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.06.10
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» AOL (NYSE: AOL) is looking at a major restructuring that could include the jettisoning of its revenue-generating dial-up busine… Read more »
Who Would Suffer The Most (And Least) Under Do Not Track
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While many major publishers, ad networks and ad agencies have been united in their opposition to the idea of a FTC’s “Do Not Track” button,… Read more »
FTC Is In Talks With Adobe About The ‘Flash Problem’
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Updated with response from Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE). So-called Flash cookies-chunks of data embedded in the Adobe Flash Player on internet users’… Read more »
FTC: Advertisers Can’t Self-Regulate, Consumers Need ‘Do Not Track’ Option
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The FTC released extensive privacy guidelines today [PDF], urging Congress to create a “Do Not Track” option for internet users, saying that… Read more »
Privacy Advocates Call FTC Ad-Tracking Regulations ‘Only A Start’
Privacy advocates had some muted praise for the Federal Trade Commission’s call for a “Do Not Track” tool to be applied as a persistent sett… Read more »
Obama Administration To Appoint ‘Privacy Czar’
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The Obama administration will create a new position-a sort of “privacy czar”-to oversee an increasingly vigilant approach to online privacy,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 11.12.10
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» As the weeks tick down until the launch of the NYTimes.com metered paywall, the paper is taking a step towards bringing the new… Read more »
Google Street View Privacy Snafu Draws Scrutiny From FCC
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Google’s collection of internet users’ personal information from its Street View cars is continuing to produce political fallout. The Federa… Read more »
Digital Home: Google TV’s Queiroz: ‘It’s TV And Web, Not TV Vs. Web’
The web is rapidly merging with television, and the economic, technological, and legal barriers that have kept consumers’ internet experienc… Read more »
Five Mobile Trends I’ll Be Watching
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It’s been three years since I started working at mocoNews. In that time — I turned my living room into an office, which I sentimentally cal… Read more »
UK Rules Google Street View Breached Data Privacy Law
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) committed a “significant breach” of the UK’s Data Protection Act when its Street View cars collected personal data inclu… Read more »
The Court Docket 11.2.10
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Some interesting legal tidbits for the day:
» The sharing of data through referral URLs — where companies pass on more about t… Read more »
Google To Pay $8.5 Million To Settle Buzz Suit
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is paying $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit charging that its Google Buzz microblogging feature violated use… Read more »
Mobile Bits: Keyboard War; TeleNav; Skype IPO; PlayStation & BOKU Rumors
– New virtual keyboard approaches: Just when you think there will be a face-off between Swype and Nuance, which are both creating alternati… Read more »
Fallout: France Provides Details On WiFi Data Google Collected
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So, what did the private WiFi data that Google disclosed last month it had been mistakenly collecting consist of? French data protection off… Read more »
Google ‘Mistakenly’ Collected Private Web Data As Part Of Street View
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) says that contrary to its prior statements it has in fact been collecting private information sent over Wi-Fi networks,… Read more »
More Problems For Google’s Street View In Europe
Google’s Street View feature isn’t even available in Germany yet, but already officials there are threatening the company with sanctions if… Read more »
