Venkat Balasubramani writes: Low brought a putative class action against LinkedIn, complaining about the fact that LinkedIn “allows transmission of users’ personally identifiable browsing history and other personal information to third parties, including advertisers, marketing companies, data brokers, and web tracking companies . . . ” He asserted a variety of different claims, including under…
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W3C Proposes Do Not Track Privacy Standard
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body that develops the protocols and guidelines for the Web, Monday released the first draft of its proposed standard for implementing “Do Not Track” online. Do Not Track refers to giving consumers the ability to opt out of having their personal information and…
Facebook “disappointed” that Hamburg DPA would like to sue the sh*t out of them
Yesterday I noted that Germany is going after Facebook over its facial recognition tag feature. Today, Kelly Fiveash of The Register has a statement from Facebook about the situation: Facebook’s German spokeswoman Tina Kulow gave the The Register this statement: “We believe that any legal action is completely unnecessary. Tag Suggest feature on Facebook is fully compliant…
New Self-Regulatory Principles for Multi-Site Data
This week, the Digital Advertising Alliance (the “DAA”) unveiled new “Self-Regulatory Principles for Multi-Site Data” (the “Principles”), aimed at expanding the scope of industry self-regulation with respect to online data collection. The Principles are designed to supplement the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising which were issued in July 2009. The DAA is composed of several constituent industry…