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Court Ruling Releases YouTube Users’ Private Data
ADOTAS – The ongoing YouTube copyright suit is rearing its ugly head again – and now YouTube users could be affected. Privacy advocates are aflutter. This week, Manhattan District Judge Louis Stanton handed Google two partial victories in the $1 billion suit. The judge is ordering Google to turn over user [...] more...
Website ‘Wikileaks’ Shuttered Over Post
A federal judge has set off a free speech tempest after shutting down a U.S. website for posting internal documents accusing a Cayman Islands’ bank branch of money laundering and tax evasion schemes. The Bank Julius Baer & Co. said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that [...] more...
Court Bars Identification Of Online Poster
This week a California appeals court ruled that an anonymous Internet poster does not have to reveal his identity after being sued for “scathing verbal attacks” against executives at a firm in Florida on a Yahoo message board. The trial court ruling that allowed the subpoena of Yahoo for the name, [...] more...
The Birth Of DirectServe And A New Era
TruEffect, a provider of next generation advertising technology, today announced the launch of DirectServe, a patent-pending solution that allows interactive advertisers and agencies to deliver campaigns from their own web domain. DirectServe removes the limitations of a third party without depleting any of the benefits, and encourages the relationship between the [...] more...
Do Internet Companies Protect Data Well Enough?
The fact that privacy laws differ markedly from country to country, whilst internet use knows no borders, complicates any attempt at a definitive answer, but a common EU, or even transatlantic, approach on how to protect internet users’ data is badly needed, stressed Sophia in’t Veld (ALDE, NL). On the [...] more...
EU Says Google/Click Merger Hurts Privacy
Google Inc’s planned takeover of rival DoubleClick for $3.1 billion would harm European citizens through greater intrusion of privacy, the EU’s top consumer lobby BEUC said on Thursday. “The Google/DoubleClick merger would harm consumer welfare by creating a structure that almost certainly will be less respectful of user privacy,” BEUC said [...] more...
eXelate Extends Invitation To Facebook Execs
eXelate, the creator of a targeting data marketplace, is formally inviting Facebook’s VP of Product Marketing & Operations Chamath Palihapitiya and CRO Owen Van Natta to try eXelate’s privacy-friendly exchange. The company has adopted a privacy-friendly approach to behavioral targeting. There is no data integration or cross-site information transfer, and user [...] more...
Webkinz Gets Spanking For Showing Ads
Children are becoming more and more sophisticated. However, this also makes them likelier targets for marketers. Children, specifically the “tween” demographic are known to have the largest amount of disposable income of anyone else in the world. So it’s no wonder that advertisers are chomping at the bit to market [...] more...
The “Dark Side” Of Web 2.0
In a year that has seen bullying in blogs, pedophiles on MySpace, and an ongoing privacy backlash against Facebook, it was appropriate that the Le Web 3 conference started this week with a panel discussion about the “dark side” of Web 2.0. “The Internet is just another form of human expression, [...] more...
Are Children Fair Ad Targets?
A study was released recently that assessed the nature of ads shown on popular children’s websites. The 40 sites reviewed in the study entitled “Fair Game?” found that visitors were exposed to over 200 ads which displayed many products that were inappropriate for children such as online dating and gambling. Some [...] more...
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