Identity Theft – Trends, Patterns, and Typologies Based on Suspicious Activity Reports. Filed by the Securities and Futures Industries January 1, 2005 December 31, 2010. Report released September 2011. “This report focuses on identity theft in the securities and futures industries. Based on Suspicious Activity Report by the Securities and Futures Industries (SAR-SF) filings,… Continue Reading
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Illegal Internet Streaming of Copyrighted Content: Legislation in the 112th Congress
CRS – Illegal Internet Streaming of Copyrighted Content: Legislation in the 112th Congress, Brian T. Yeh, Legislative Attorney, August 29, 2011 “Technological developments related to the Internet benefit consumers who want convenient ways to view and hear information and entertainment content on a variety of electronic devices (such as televisions, radios, computers, mobile phones, video… Continue Reading
UK Guardian – The death of books has been greatly exaggerated
Radical change is certainly producing some alarming symptoms: “According to Nielsen BookScan, the publishing industry standard for book sales data, book sales are pretty healthy, with one significant proviso which I’ll come to. Ten years ago in 2001, 162m books were sold in Britain. Ten years later a decade in which the internet bloomed,… Continue Reading
comScore: Amazon Sites Visited by 1 in 5 Global Internet Users in June
News release: “comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a report on selected global retail and auction sites based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. The study found that of the destinations analyzed, Amazon Sites reached the largest global audience with more than 282 million visitors in June, or… Continue Reading
Study: Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning
Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning (July 29, 2011), Ayenson, Mika, Wambach, Dietrich James, Soltani, Ashkan, Good, Nathan and Hoofnagle, Chris Jay, Available at SSRN In August 2009, we demonstrated that popular websites were using Flash cookies to track users. Some advertisers had adopted this technology because it allowed persistent… Continue Reading
Dow Jones circulation chief calculates highlights content for which customers will pay
Poynter: “Writing in the newsletter of the International News Marketing Association, Dow Jones senior vice president of circulation Lynne Brennen proposes five attributes to measure a consumers willingness to pay. She also assigned a percentage weighting to each. Keep in mind this is a measure not of what people would like to have as they… Continue Reading
Upcoming hearing: The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?
The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition? – Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. DATE: September 21, 2011 Continue Reading
WSJ: Marketers are spying on Internet users
“Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s computers by the 50 most popular… Continue Reading
New FTC Video Helps Businesses Comply with CAN-SPAM Rule
News release: “Say spam and most business executives think of annoying e-mail messages, like the ones that hold out a phony offer to split $50 million thats sitting in a foreign bank. Of course, this type of message is covered by the Federal Trade Commissions CAN-SPAM Rule, which is designed to protect consumers from deceptive… Continue Reading
FTC: Consumer Confidence in Internet Marketplace Depends on Privacy Protections
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission told Congress that consumers must be confident that their privacy will be protected if they are to be willing to take advantage of all the benefits offered by the Internet marketplace. Commission testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, delivered by Commissioner Julie Brill, states that,… Continue Reading
Facts from the FTC: What You Should Know About Mobile Apps
“New technology can bring tremendous benefits to consumers, but it also can present new challenges. Mobile apps offered on cell phones and other portable devices such as tablets and music players can perform a range of consumer services such as locating the nearest retail stores, managing shopping lists, tracking family budgets, and allowing consumers to… Continue Reading
Google Posts About FTC's Formal Notification of Business Review
Follow up to posting, WSJ: FTC Plans to Serve Google With Subpoenas, from the Official Google Blog: “At Google, weve always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possibleand our product innovation and engineering talent have delivered results that users seem to like, in a world where… Continue Reading
