Digital Privacy Issues
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Cookie Wars:How New Data Profiling and Targeting Techniques Threaten Citizens and Consumers in the “Big Data” Era--now published
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/05/2012 - 22:11Our chapter in a new edited volume called European Data Protection: In Good Health? is now published. It survey's the contemporary digital data tracking and online marketing landscape. It pulls back the curtain on many digital marketing practices and claims. Worth a look, as they say, if you have time. More info here.
IAB Attacks EU, W3C. Says Protecting Privacy Online is Bigger threat to the Internet than SOPA or PIPA!
Submitted by demedia on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 16:43When the head of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB/US) goes on a tirade in front of the world's leading digital marketing and advertising companies, it's worth noting what's the alarm about. According to IAB CEO Randall Rothenberg, the biggest threat to the Internet today isn't SOPA or PIPA--it's the work of the EU and W3C to protect consumer privacy!
Online Ad Giants to Congress: Don't Protect Consumers Online. Let us develop the safeguards!
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 03/03/2012 - 15:58The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) political wheeling and dealing should come under greater policymaker and press scrutiny, especially from EU privacy officials. Online data collection companies are terrified that policymakers will enact reasonable safeguards that ensure consumers and citizens get to decide how their data can be collected and used--not the digital data grabbers at Google, Facebook, and many others. These digital marketers would prefer that private deals be struck that will allow the data profiling status quo, including on issues related to our finances,
EU/US Consumer Groups (TACD) Call on Google to Reverse Privacy Policy Plan
Submitted by demedia on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 17:09This letter from the US/EU consumer group organization Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, which formally advises both the EU and US, calls on Google to suspend its planned privacy changes.
Consumer & Privacy Groups Ask Congress to hold Public Hearing on Google Privacy Concerns
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 19:15White House Privacy Bill of Rights--Good Start, but Concerns Loom
Submitted by demedia on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 15:16CDD has made a commitment to the White House that it will work on “multi-stake holder” negotiations to help develop new consumer online privacy safeguards. We recognize that in the absence of federal legislation, the inability of the FTC to issue regulations, and the ever-increasing digital data collection system, some progress must be made to protect consumers. Increasingly, consumers face a daily whirlwind of data collection, confronting a vast and largely uncontrollable apparatus that tracks their every move. Whether we are using a PC, a mobile device, playi
CDD to FTC: Google Violated Buzz Consent Decree by Failing to Inform Consumers Real Reasons for its Expanded Data Practices
Submitted by demedia on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 13:55The attached complaint was sent today to the FTC, including the following to the Secretary, Commissioners, and staff:
Microsoft and Facebook Targeting using Real-Time Bidding/Ad Exchanges: "target...with great precision"
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 16:09The recent flare-up/digital privacy food fight between Microsoft and Google (including full-page print ads from Microsoft) shouldn't distract from a key point: digital marketers like Google and Microsoft are basically doing the same things--despite whatever "spin" they place on it. Digital advertising is a global business whose business model for online data collection and profile-based targeting across all platforms are being engineered by Google, Microsoft and a few other leaders. Facebook's expansion of viral and peer to peer marketing has also shaped online d
Community Group comments on W3C DNT--Towards a Do Not Track System that Protects User Privacy
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 01/21/2012 - 17:36Facebook uses neuromarketing research to back its online ad clout--tracking brain/subconscious behaviors
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 16:22Facebook's expansion of its data collection and ad targeting system includes a recent alliance with the Nielsen company, to help it validate its worth to the largest global advertisers. Now Facebook is working with Nielsen's new neuromarketing service Neurofocus. Like other major online marketers, Facebook is researching how its ad system influences the unconscious perceptions and emotions of individuals. It has just released a new study done with Neurofocus documenting the &qu
