Topic: online privacy
Senate Democrats aren't going to let a little distraction like the 2012 presidential election stop them from pushing for baseline legislation to protect consumers’ privacy online. In a classic showdown between…
MySpace joined Google and Facebook in settling Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated millions of users' privacy, contrary to what the social network said in its privacy policy. As part…
Google isn't fooling around when it comes to Washington. The search giant spent $5.03 million in first quarter, a 240 percent increase over the same period last year and an…
Changing the name of an organization is often more internal politics than external policy. But in the case of the National Advertising Review Council—now known as the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council—the…
A new study from Carnegie Mellon University throws cold water on the reputed success of the Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory privacy program, which gives consumers the choice to opt out…
Despite the government’s best efforts to take control of the online and mobile privacy debate, it seems it’s the Internet advertising community that will have the upper hand in shaping…
Just about everything in the Federal Trade Commission's final privacy report went down as expected for the Internet advertising industry except for one, a new recommendation to give regulators more…
Is the entire debate over online privacy just a case of regulators and the Obama administration crying wolf? That was the bombshell argument Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) dropped during the…
The Federal Trade Commission continues to show it has enforcement teeth when it comes to protecting children's privacy and data security. The agency ripped into RockYou Tuesday, announcing a settlement…
The Federal Trade Commission issued a final report addressing consumers' online privacy in which it praised the ad industry's efforts to self-regulate while warning that there could be a bigger…
