Wendy Davis reports: The prospect of an easy-to-use browser-based opt-out for behavioral advertising advanced this week with Mozilla’s release of a preliminary version of a do-not-track header. But this newest tool is only an early — and potentially buggy — version of the header. An even bigger obstacle for people who want to test the feature…
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Es: Conflict between class action and protection
Berta Baz reports: The most appropriate model to reconcile collective action and data protection was that implemented by Ausbanc with the class-action suit against Telefonica Extremadura. A Madrid court has caused a dispute over the settlement of a collective action to protect the personal data of customers. This court ordered BBVA President Francisco González to…
International Cellular Network Industry Association Releases Privacy Principles
Andrew Hoffman writes: Hot on the trail of the FTC’s recent report on privacy, the GSMA, the London-based industry association representing over 800 cellular network operators worldwide, released its “high-level” Mobile Privacy Principles (the “Principles”) on January 27, 2011. The Principles were released with the goal of creating a “robust and effective framework for the protection of privacy”…
Reps. Barton and Markey Challenge Facebook on Disclosure of Home Addresses, Mobile Phone Numbers
From EPIC.org: A letter from Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) to Mark Zuckerberg asks about Facebook’s plans to make users’ addresses and mobile phone numbers available to websites and application developers. Facebook suspended the plan after EPIC and others objected. EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said that “Facebook is trying to blur the…