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Digital Health Issues
Google's Eric Schmidt Doesn't Believe Consumer Protection, Competition Safeguards Required, as he's named Global Ad Leader
Eric Schmidt of Google, speaking this week at the Cannes Lions ad festival, incredibly claimed that "the web is self-policing." Schmidt, who was named "Media Person" of the year at the global marketing event, used this phrase, it
EPIC, CDD, Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Call for FTC Facebook Investigation on use of facial/biometric profiling
Privacy groups asked the FTC to investigate and remedy the latest privacy intrusion by Facebook--its use of facial recognition analysis without meaningful consumer privacy control.
EPIC, CDD, Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Call for FTC Facebook Investigation on use of facial/biometric profiling
Privacy groups asked the FTC to investigate and remedy the latest privacy intrusion by Facebook--its use of facial recognition analysis without meaningful consumer privacy control.
EPIC, CDD, Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Call for FTC Facebook Investigation on use of facial/biometric profiling
Privacy groups asked the FTC to investigate and remedy the latest privacy intrusion by Facebook--its use of facial recognition analysis without meaningful consumer privacy control.
EPIC, CDD, Consumer Watchdog and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Call for FTC Facebook Investigation on use of facial/biometric profiling
Privacy groups asked the FTC to investigate and remedy the latest privacy intrusion by Facebook--its use of facial recognition analysis without meaningful consumer privacy control.
Groupon IPO: "the regulation" of "cookies and other current online advertising practices could adversely affect our business"
Groupon's IPO filed at the SEC raises a number of key issues, including the need to protect Internet and mobile privacy in the emerging era of hyper-local tracking and targeting. For example, the IPO refers to the recent hearings on mobile privacy chaired by Sen. Rockefeller and also Sen.
Google, China, Data Collection, Privacy and Online Marketing
Google's revelation of a possible China-based phishing attach on Gmail users has become big news--even leading off the BBC telecasts. In its post on the incident, Google frames the issue as "ensuring your information safe online." But missing from its discussion is its on work to harvest and mine user data in China--and other regions nearby. So much consumer information is being scooped up by Google and other online giants in the lucrative China and APAC market t
Evidon attacks WSJ for Engaging in Journalism: Self-Reg Industry Group Shows inability to understand privacy
If we needed additional evidence that the online ad lobby doesn't understand and respect the privacy concerns of consumers, all you need to do is read the report in Paidcontent on the attack of WSJ journalist Julia Angwin by Evidon's CEO. It reported that "Evidon CEO Scott Meyer suggested that the tone of the WSJ series about digital privacy, called
