Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
A recent article in Wired describes iBeacon, a new Apple technology that profoundly increases automatic information sharing capabilities between devices. Based on Bluetooth Low Energy technology is already built into…
The past year has seen consumers being given new tools to control the data that advertisers and data brokers collect about them. These developments might point to a new direction…
From an attentive MCC undergrad. Link here. The webpage itself tracks all onClick behaviors.
The FTC and ScanScout came to a settlement over ScanScout's deceptive use of Flash cookies. ScanScout used Flash cookies to track users, but its privacy policy merely stated a user…
Similar story to Verizon is coming up.. (Taken from Slashdot. Source: Mastercard, Visa to help Target Ads) "The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into…
History sniffing lawsuit dismissed Recent privacy research has demonstrated the widespread collection of consumer browsing behavior by "history sniffing," as well as by using flash cookies and ETags as tracking…
A punchy run-down and send-up of the online advertising industry's poor response to recent criticism.
A new set of stories relating to Facebook and MySpace apps and identifiable information they share: Read about it here.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/technology/30adstalk.html?_r=1&hp