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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.
Does the DAA Plan to Undermine Do-Not-Track?
Say a user wants not to be tracked. That's their choice and right, yes? It should be. But it appears that the White House and FTC blessed Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), including Google, has other plans for a user in mind. According to the trade publication Digiday, "the ad industry’s Digital Advertising Alliance is currently in discussions with all major browser manufacturers to agree to a consistent implementation of the feature.
Dueling Do-Not-Tracks? Does the DAA/IAB Fear of Multi-stakeholder Process Doom Real Privacy Controls?
Submitted by demedia on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 15:43Is the development of a global, uniform, and powerful means of protecting some of a users information online about to be derailed? That's certainly a possibility, given this week's White House's endorsement of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) plan to implement its own form of do-not-track (DNT). The ultimate fate of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) own work to create a "tracking-protection" standard--one that would likely be more effective--is in doubt. It's precisely because the DAA and i
Dueling Do-Not-Tracks? Does the DAA/IAB Fear of Multi-stakeholder Process Doom Real Privacy Controls?
Submitted by demedia on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 15:43Is the development of a global, uniform, and powerful means of protecting some of a users information online about to be derailed? That's certainly a possibility, given this week's White House's endorsement of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) plan to implement its own form of do-not-track (DNT). The ultimate fate of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) own work to create a "tracking-protection" standard--one that would likely be more effective--is in doubt. It's precisely because the DAA and i
Dueling Do-Not-Tracks? Does the DAA/IAB Fear of Multi-stakeholder Process Doom Real Privacy Controls?
Submitted by demedia on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 15:43Is the development of a global, uniform, and powerful means of protecting some of a users information online about to be derailed? That's certainly a possibility, given this week's White House's endorsement of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) plan to implement its own form of do-not-track (DNT). The ultimate fate of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) own work to create a "tracking-protection" standard--one that would likely be more effective--is in doubt. It's precisely because the DAA and i
Consumer & Privacy Groups Ask Congress to hold Public Hearing on Google Privacy Concerns
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 19:15Consumer & Privacy Groups Ask Congress to hold Public Hearing on Google Privacy Concerns
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 19:15Consumer & Privacy Groups Ask Congress to hold Public Hearing on Google Privacy Concerns
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 19:15Consumer & 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
