Joseph Turow is a communications professor at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, who has written about advertising and new media as well as testifying at congressional hearings on the subject. He talked about his concerns and why he thinks protecting privacy will save the golden egg-laying goose, not kill it with Multichannel…
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Apple Sued Again For Alleged Privacy Violations
Steve Satterfield writes: For the fourth time in the past two months, Apple has been sued for allegedly violating the privacy of iPad and iPhone users. Like the previous three suits (two of which we discussed in this post), Rodimer v. Apple, Inc. [PDF] alleges that Apple transmitted “personal information,” including Unique Device IDs (“UDIDs”) to application…
What does the “Track” in “Do Not Track” mean?
Peter Eckersley of EFF comments: There is a lot of discussion about Do Not Track at the moment. The FTC has announced supportfor the idea; Mozilla has added a Do Not Track header option into Firefox betas, and Congresswoman Jackie Speier has introduced a Do Not Track bill. Other proposed privacy legislation, such as Rep. Bobby Rush’s bill, could…
Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement
Leena Rao writes: Well this is interesting. According to this post, Twitter has suspended UberTwitter and Twidroyd for violating its policies. The action is even more fascinating considering that UberMedia, which operates UberTwitter and Twidroyd, is building an army of third-party Twitter clients, including Tweetdeck, that compete directly with Twitter’s web and mobile clients. […] Today we suspended several…