Jim Edwards reports: Apple’s launch of the iPhone 5 in September came with a bunch of new commercials to promote the device. But Apple didn’t shout quite so loud about an enhancement to its new mobile operating system, iOS 6, which also occurred in September: The company has started tracking users so that advertisers can target them again, through a…
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EU steps back from insistence that ‘do not track’ standard is cookie-law compliant
Web browser ‘do not track’ functions will not, on their own, allow website operators to comply with EU rules on ‘cookies’, an EU Commissioner has admitted. Neelie Kroes, who is responsible for the EU’s Digital Agenda, acknowledged that website owners will still need to obtain consent to use cookies even if web users have ‘do…
Why you should check your Verizon Wireless privacy settings right now
Suzanne Choney writes: Wireless carriers get their monthly take from you, but they’re cashing in on you in other ways, too — unless you tell them otherwise: Carriers sell information about your mobile Web searches and other data to marketing companies. The good news is, you can easily opt out of providing such info. The bad news is,…
Senator Opens Investigation of Data Brokers
Natasha Singer reports: The multibillion-dollar data brokerage industry, a growing force in online marketing, is drawing intensified government scrutiny. On Wednesday, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, opened an extensive investigation of nine leading information brokers. Because Americans now conduct much of their daily business online, the senator said he was concerned that…