Telecom Firms Form Privacy Coalition
Performance Marketing
As privacy and data security heat up on Capitol Hill in the wake of news over the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, a group of the nation's largest telecommunications companies [...]
FTC Restricts Behavioral Targeting of Kids
Performance Marketing
Flanked by the leading privacy hawks in Congress, Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz Wednesday unveiled tighter rules to strengthen kids online and mobile privacy.
FTC Launches Probe of Data Broker Privacy Practices
Performance Marketing
Last week's Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus briefing on data brokers and privacy must have left quite an impression on Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, who opened a probe today [...]
FTC’s Vladeck to Exit Dec. 31
Brand Marketing
David Vladeck, the hard-charging director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, is officially leaving on Dec. 31 to return to his faculty position at Georgetown University Law [...]
Kids’ Mobile Apps Under FTC Probe for Privacy Violations
Performance Marketing
Mobile apps for kids are still flunking in terms of privacy. Most don't even have a privacy policy and far too many kids' apps are sharing information about kids with [...]
Advertisers to FTC: We’re Not Going Back on ‘Do Not Track’
Performance Marketing
Advertisers are dismissing charges that they are somehow backing off their commitment made last February to honor a uniform browser feature that would give consumers the choice to opt-out of [...]