The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found Virgin Blue guilty of violating the country’s anti-spam laws. The agency said their investigation found that the company sent over 10,000 emails over a 2 month period to customers who had requested to be removed from their mailing list. According to the Spam Act, companies are required…
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Monster.com Latest Site Trying to Beat Regulators to Privacy Punch
Katy Bachman reports: Friday is Data Privacy Day and at least one company, job search giant, Monster.com, is using the occasion to announce additional privacy controls for the 68 million job seekers reached annually by behaviorally targeted ads through its Career Ad Network. Monster is one of many Internet companies that’s recently been feeling the…
Privacy & Innovation: A Data Privacy Day Reflection
Ryan Calo writes: The intuition that privacy and innovation are somehow opposed is surprisingly common. It is true that overzealous or reactionary appeals to privacy can cut off interesting ventures. (For instance, some believe Steamtunnels would have evolved into a social network in 1999 were it not shut down by the Stanford University due to privacy…
What the US government can do to encourage Do Not Track
Chris Soghoian writes: Over the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion about Do Not Track. Although both the FTC and Commerce Department have recently issued privacy reports that mentioned Do Not Track, neither agency has the authority under existing law to make Do Not Track a reality. Either the industry can…