News release: ” The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) gave leading government agencies and online retailers a failing grade in preventing deceptive email and phishing scams based on its newly released analysis of email authentication adoption. While adoption has grown over the past year, OTA found approximately 56 percent of the top .gov sites including… Continue Reading
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Mainstream Media Under Increasing Pressure
Follow up to April 26, 2009 posting – WSJ Interactive Map – Adverse events at top 100 newspapers, 2006-2009, this New York Times op-ed by Frank Rich – The American Press on Suicide Watch: “Newspaper circulations and revenues are in free fall. Legendary brands from The Los Angeles Times to The Philadelphia Inquirer are teetering.… Continue Reading
The World Internet Project Report 2009
News release: “Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg with 13 Partner Countries Release First World Internet Project Report – Pioneering Report Finds Remarkable Similarities and Significant Differences Globally – Online Purchasing Not Yet Part of the Global Internet Experience; A Majority of Users Believe Only Half of the Information they Find Online is… Continue Reading
House Hearing on Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, Communications Networks and Consumer Privacy: Recent Developments on April 23, 2009. The hearing focused on technologies that network operators utilize to monitor consumer usage and how those technologies intersect with consumer privacy. The hearing explored three ways to monitor consumer usage on broadband… Continue Reading
FTC Staff Revises Online Behavioral Advertising Principles
News release: “Federal Trade Commission staff…issued a report describing its ongoing examination of online behavioral advertising and setting forth revisions to proposed principles to govern self-regulatory efforts in this area. The key issue concerns how online advertisers can best protect consumers privacy while collecting information about their online activities…The report discusses the potential benefits of… Continue Reading
New Tool Will Help Online Advertisers Develop Stronger Privacy Practices
“Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) released a new assessment tool to help online advertising companies develop strong, appropriate privacy protections for the users they serve. Released to coincide with Data Privacy Day 2009, the Threshold Analysis for Online Advertising Practices, is the result of extensive consultation among CDT, Internet companies and public interest advocates.… Continue Reading
Pew Survey: Generations Online in 2009
News release: “Over half of the adult internet population is between 18 and 44 years old. But larger percentages of older generations are online now than in the past, and they are doing more activities online, according to surveys taken from 2006-2008. Contrary to the image of Generation Y as the “Net Generation,” internet users… Continue Reading
Gartner Says 2008 Should Be the Last Christmas for Retail CDs
News release: “The music industry must move away from the retail CD as its primary revenue generator before Christmas 2009, according to Gartner. Gartner said that reliance on revenue from the sale of prerecorded CDs is hindering the music industry from fully embracing online distribution opportunities…Enabling the transition away from retail music CDs toward online… Continue Reading
Coalition Letter to President-elect Obama on the Future of Privacy
“Thirty privacy, consumer, and civil liberties organizations sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama on the importance of protecting privacy in the next administration. The organizations support the incoming presidents expressed on privacy, consumer rights, and civil liberties. President-elect Obama stated support for strengthening of privacy protection by harnessing the power of technology to hold… Continue Reading
Yahoo! Announces New Data Retention Policy
Press release: “Today, Yahoo! Inc. announced a new global data retention policy that sets an industry-leading approach to user data privacy. This new policy strengthens Yahoo!’s relationship of trust with its 500 million users world-wide and enhances its longtime leadership on privacy. Under the new policy, Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days… Continue Reading
The Network Advertising Initiative's Self-Regulatory Code of Conduct 2008
2008 Network Advertising Initiative Principles: “Through the present 2008 revision to the NAIs Self-Regulatory Code of Conduct, NAI members continue their commitment to respect appropriate fair information practices adapted for this medium and to their business models, maintaining self-regulation with respect to notice, choice, use limitation, access, reliability and security.” New York Times: “The trade… Continue Reading
Most Trusted Companies for Privacy Survey Results Announced
News release: “Privacy and information security research company Ponemon Institute along with TRUSTe, the most widely recognized Internet privacy trustmark, today announced the results of the Ponemon Institutes fifth annual survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy. The study asked 6,486 adult-aged U.S. consumers which companies they thought were most trustworthy and which did the… Continue Reading
