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FTC Action on Data Brokers. It's time to uncover stealth surveillance practices tracking, analyzing, scoring and targeting consumers
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 16:17The dramatic growth of the data broker industry, fueled by information on consumers culled from the Internet, social media, mobile phones, and in-store shopping, has created a multitude of all seeing eyes spying on Americans everyday. A digital gold mine of infinite details is harvested about each of us--what we buy, who are friends are, how much we earn, our ethnicity, health concerns, location, etc. For the most part, these records are off limits to consumers, who can't really discover what they say about us--including the likely errors they may contain.
FTC Action on Data Brokers. It's time to uncover stealth surveillance practices tracking, analyzing, scoring and targeting consumers
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 16:17The dramatic growth of the data broker industry, fueled by information on consumers culled from the Internet, social media, mobile phones, and in-store shopping, has created a multitude of all seeing eyes spying on Americans everyday. A digital gold mine of infinite details is harvested about each of us--what we buy, who are friends are, how much we earn, our ethnicity, health concerns, location, etc. For the most part, these records are off limits to consumers, who can't really discover what they say about us--including the likely errors they may contain.
FTC Action on Data Brokers. It's time to uncover stealth surveillance practices tracking, analyzing, scoring and targeting consumers
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 16:17The dramatic growth of the data broker industry, fueled by information on consumers culled from the Internet, social media, mobile phones, and in-store shopping, has created a multitude of all seeing eyes spying on Americans everyday. A digital gold mine of infinite details is harvested about each of us--what we buy, who are friends are, how much we earn, our ethnicity, health concerns, location, etc. For the most part, these records are off limits to consumers, who can't really discover what they say about us--including the likely errors they may contain.
FTC Action on Data Brokers. It's time to uncover stealth surveillance practices tracking, analyzing, scoring and targeting consumers
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 12/18/2012 - 16:07The dramatic growth of the data broker industry, fueled by information on consumers culled from the Internet, social media, mobile phones, and in-store shopping, has created a multitude of all seeing eyes spying on Americans everyday. A digital gold mine of infinite details is harvested about each of us--what we buy, who are friends are, how much we earn, our ethnicity, health concerns, location, etc. For the most part, these records are off limits to consumers, who can't really discover what they say about us--including the likely errors they may contain.
Nickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Says New Complaint to FTC
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 12:49Center for Digital Democracy Charges that Nickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game
Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ActUrges Federal Trade Commission to Investigate and Bring Action Against the Leading Children’s Cable Channel
Nickelodeon and PlayFirst Don’t Play Fair,
Collecting Personal Information from Kids and Inducing In-Game PurchasesNickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Says New Complaint to FTC
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 12:49Center for Digital Democracy Charges that Nickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game
Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ActUrges Federal Trade Commission to Investigate and Bring Action Against the Leading Children’s Cable Channel
Nickelodeon and PlayFirst Don’t Play Fair,
Collecting Personal Information from Kids and Inducing In-Game PurchasesNickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Says New Complaint to FTC
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 12:49Center for Digital Democracy Charges that Nickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game
Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ActUrges Federal Trade Commission to Investigate and Bring Action Against the Leading Children’s Cable Channel
Nickelodeon and PlayFirst Don’t Play Fair,
Collecting Personal Information from Kids and Inducing In-Game PurchasesNickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, Says New Complaint to FTC
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 12:49Center for Digital Democracy Charges that Nickelodeon’s Mobile SpongeBob Game
Violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ActUrges Federal Trade Commission to Investigate and Bring Action Against the Leading Children’s Cable Channel
Nickelodeon and PlayFirst Don’t Play Fair,
Collecting Personal Information from Kids and Inducing In-Game PurchasesOnline Ad Lobby vs kids privacy: The Digital Scrooge tries to kill COPPA at the FTC
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 16:47We can tell you why the lobbyists representing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and the other consumer data-stealing giant members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau are afraid that the FTC will update its kids privacy rules on COPPA. Their desperate cartoon attack using Santa Claus reveals an inability for the online ad industry to take the privacy issues seriously (which is what their actions on Do Not Track also reveal). It shows
Online Ad Lobby vs kids privacy: The Digital Scrooge tries to kill COPPA at the FTC
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 12/14/2012 - 16:47We can tell you why the lobbyists representing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and the other consumer data-stealing giant members of the Interactive Advertising Bureau are afraid that the FTC will update its kids privacy rules on COPPA. Their desperate cartoon attack using Santa Claus reveals an inability for the online ad industry to take the privacy issues seriously (which is what their actions on Do Not Track also reveal). It shows
