Franken’s Location Privacy Bill Voted Out of Judiciary Committee
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Sen. Al Franken's (D-Minn.) location privacy bill requiring companies to get permission from users before collecting their location information was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday afternoon in [...]
Google Faces Privacy Pushback Abroad
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Regulators from 20 countries—in a European Union-led effort also entailing Asia and Canada—called on Google to revise its 10-month-old privacy policy today at a press conference in Paris.
New Government Report Calls for Rules on Mobile Tracking
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office today is giving privacy advocates another opportunity to press for new laws that could potentially limit the promise of mobile advertising.
Survey: Privacy a Top Concern for Mobile App Users
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Privacy is a top concern for mobile app users, according to a telephone survey conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. More than half of app users—57 [...]
Lawmaker Invites Internet Users to Craft Privacy Legislation
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Congress got the message. Don't mess with new Internet laws without involving the Internet community unless you want a repeat of the great Internet blackout in January over SOPA, the [...]
Consumer Awareness of Ad Biz’s Privacy Self-Reg Low, but Improving
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The interactive advertising business has done a pretty good job of convincing regulators to give its self-regulation program for online behavioral advertising a chance to the point where the Federal [...]