“Today, CDT is releasing its final best practices guidance for online subscription upsellingthe practice of offering add-on subscription services to consumers while theyre purchasing a separate product. This is an issue that CDT has worked on with industry and consumer advocates for the past couple of years, and we hope that the document we are… Continue Reading
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FTC Takes Action to Stop Massive Robocalling Operations
News release: “As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing efforts to crack down on illegal, prerecorded “robocalls,” the FTC is taking legal action to stop two operations that allegedly enabled telemarketers to place hundreds of millions of illegal prerecorded calls to consumers around the country, including many who had registered their phone numbers on… Continue Reading
EPIC: State Attorneys General Cite Privacy Risks to Android Users, Demand Meeting with Google
EPIC: “Attorneys general from 36 states and territories sent a letter to Google raising new questions about the plan to consolidate user data on March 1. “The new policy forces consumers to allow information across all of these products to be shared, without giving them the ability to opt out.,” the letter says. The state… Continue Reading
FTC Report Raises Privacy Questions About Mobile Applications for Children
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a staff report showing the results of a survey of mobile apps for children. The survey shows that neither the app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or… Continue Reading
Who Advertises on News Sites and How Much Those Ads are Targeted
Digital Advertising and News Who advertises on news sites and how much those ads are targeted “Between 2011 and 2015, revenue from digital advertising in the United States is expected to grow by 40% and to overtake all other platforms by 2016. Yet how much of that growth will go to underwrite news remains in… Continue Reading
FAQ – What is a privacyscore?
“A privacyscore is a way to assess the privacy risk of using a website. Privacy risk is the chance that data about you will be used or shared in ways that you probably don’t expect. Privacyscores cover two kinds of data: We estimate privacy risk to personal data (such as your name or email address)… Continue Reading
FTC Warns Marketers That Mobile Apps May Violate Fair Credit Reporting Act
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission warned marketers of six mobile applications that provide background screening apps that they may be violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FTC warned the apps marketers that, if they have reason to believe the background reports they provide are being used for employment screening, housing, credit, or other… Continue Reading
Consortium Launches enviacentroamerica.org To Make Costs and Conditions of Remittances More Transparent
News release: “The Center for Latin American Monetary Studies (CEMLA), the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the World Bank today launched enviacentroamerica.org, a free online tool to compare and make transparent the costs of remittances from the United States to six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic.… Continue Reading
Facebook, Inc. Files for IPO with SEC
via SEC: Facebook, Inc. Form S-1, February 1, 2012 “We had 845 million MAUs as of December 31, 2011, an increase of 39% as compared to 608 million MAUs as of December 31, 2010. We had 483 million daily active users (DAUs) on average in December 2011, an increase of 48% as compared to 327… Continue Reading
European Union: Implementation of the Consumer Credit Directive
Implementation of the Consumer Credit Directive: “The study examines the state and the main difficulties of the implementation of Directive 2008/48/EC on credit agreements for consumers using the examples of fourteen Member States of the European Union. The analysis focuses on fully harmonised aspects of the Directive as well as on the provisions for which… Continue Reading
Pew – The rise of in-store mobile commerce
The rise of in-store mobile commerce – “During the holiday season, 25% of cell owners used their phone inside stores to gather price comparisons; 24% used them to look up online reviews. And 19% of those who searched for a better price on an in-store product eventually bought the product online.” Aaron Smith Senior Research… Continue Reading
Commission proposes a comprehensive reform of the data protection rules
News release: The European Commission has today [January 24, 2012] a comprehensive reform of the EU’s 1995 data protection rules to strengthen online privacy rights and boost Europe’s digital economy. Technological progress and globalisation have profoundly changed the way our data is collected, accessed and used. In addition, the 27 EU Member States have implemented… Continue Reading
