Mozilla’s recent announcement that it was moving ahead with Do Not Track has been met with a somewhat predictable response. From IAB’s CEO and President Randall Rothenberg: Mozilla is obviously a very factionalized organization. It’s like mob rule. It’s very difficult if you’re a rational player. We like to think of ourselves at IAB as…
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Judge scrutinizes Facebook deal to end privacy lawsuit over ads
Dan Levine reports: Child rights advocates tried to convince a U.S. judge on Friday that a Facebook (FB.O) legal settlement did not go far enough to keep content created by minors out of the hands of advertisers. […] At a hearing on Friday, Children’s Advocacy Institute attorney Robert Fellmeth told Seeborg that no minors should…
Anti-Hacking Bill Aiding Verizon Delayed by Snowden Leaks
Chris Strohm reports: Legislation to give Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) and Google Inc. (GOOG) legal protection for sharing cyber-attack information with the U.S. government has stalled after leaks about spy programs showed the companies are already turning over data. Lawmakers have stopped advancing cybersecurity legislation until at least September as they gather more information about the National Security Agency…
FTC’s Brill Calls for Congress to Legislate New Data Privacy, Stuns Marketers
Kate Kaye writes that marketers were caught off-guard by FTC Commissioner Julie Brill’s “Reclaim Your Name” initiative, described in her keynote address as CFP this week: The Direct Marketing Association was caught off guard by Commissioner Brill’s announcement. “DMA has been in discussion with Commissioner Brill regarding ways to increase transparency in the ‘data broker’…