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Quick Hits: Facebook Settles with the FTC, Cyber Monday vs. Other Mondays
ADOTAS – Facebook has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it shared data from its users after telling users said data would remain private. The FTC brought up eight counts, some of which are actually a few years old at this point. Some of the charges held the social network [...] more...
Marc Groman To Be Exec At NAI
ADOTAS – Today, the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) board of directors announced that Marc Groman, the chief privacy officer of the Federal Trade Commission, will become the NAI’s next executive director and general counsel. The NAI is a leading self-regulatory organization for companies in the online advertising marketplace, including 24/7 [...] more...
Scary Study Finds OBA Opt-Out Mechanisms ‘Fundamentally Flawed’
ADOTAS – For Halloween, I was thinking the scariest thing I could dress up as would be a third-party online data collector. I mean, what is more horrifying than a member of the cyberazzi? I figure I could go to cafés and spy on what sites Internet users are browsing, conspicuously taking [...] more...
Will the FTC’s Online Privacy Framework Satisfy Any Party?
ADOTAS – The Federal Trade Commission’s online privacy framework — outlined by Chair Jon Leibowitz at a press conference last week — seems to walk the fine line of compromise between the desires of online behavioral advertising companies and privacy advocates. However, it’s said that the best compromise is the one [...] more...
The Lows and Highs of FTC Chair Leibowitz’s Privacy Framework Outlay
ADOTAS – It was kind of a shame. Federal Trade Commission Chair Jon Leibowitz’s speech (PDF) last Tuesday at the National Press Club in DC — for an event sponsored by a large posse of privacy advocates publicizing the launch of a report that was supposed to finally dispel the [...] more...
Field Report: Inside the Privacy Event Keynoted by FTC Chair Leibowitz
ADOTAS – Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz delivered the keynote speech at a forum on Internet privacy on Tuesday. He was part of a panel that discussed the protection of consumer data and the tracking of online consumer behavior. The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and [...] more...
Stanford Privacy Research More About Lackluster Site Security Than OBA [UPDATED]
ADOTAS – [UPDATED AT BOTTOM] According to a new study by the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, 61% or 113 of Quantcast’s 185 most popular sites sent user names or user IDs (potentially email addresses) to third parties via cookies. And most of it appears to be unintentional — [...] more...
Online Tracking: FTC Chair Leibowitz Needs to Lead by Example
ADOTAS – Yesterday at an event sponsored by a large group of privacy watchdogs (the ACLU, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, US PIRG and World Privacy Forum to be exact) called “Yes, They [...] more...
Facebook’s Tracking Cookies and How the FTC Could Shake Off Privacy Fatigue
ADOTAS – Looks like the Facebook legal team is going to have to earn its holiday bonus this year. Five class action lawsuits have been filed against Facebook alleging the company violated wiretap laws by setting tracking cookies that contained user IDs and followed browser behavior on sites integrated with the [...] more...
FTC Chair to Speak at Release of Report Claiming Digital Data Collection Not Anonymous
ADOTAS – Mark your calendars: On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz will be delivering the keynote speech at “Yes, They Really Know It’s You: The Digital Collection of Personal Information From Consumers and Citizens,” an event promoting the release of a new study that promises to [...] more...
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