Karlene Lukovitz reports: A new controversy about behavorial data-driven ads for McDonald’s, Staples, Macy’s and other brands now showing up in online bank statements is less-than-ideal timing for the advertising industry, to put it mildly. The new channel — a moneymaker for banks that’s reportedly working extremely well for participating marketers — generates ads, most…
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Argument recap in FCC v. ATT: Losing on a privacy claim?
Lyle Denniston comments on the Supreme Court justices’ reactions during oral argument on FCC v. ATT today: With a clarity that approached the blatantly obvious, the notion that federal law gives corporations a right of “personal privacy” in their internal records steadily lost support as argument on the point unfolded Wednesday in the Supreme Court….
SCOTUS: Oral arguments today in FCC v. AT&T
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in FCC v. AT&T, a case that raises the issue of whether corporations have “personhood” in the sense that they have a reasonable expectation of privacy that individuals enjoy. The specific issue before the court is whether exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act that apply to individuals’…
ThankTwitter: Harnessing the Power of Social Media to Promote Good Corporate Stewardship of Privacy
There’s a new page on this web site: the ThankTwitter page. The #ThankTwitter campaign is a grassroots, crowd-sourced effort to publicly acknowledge Twitter’s defense of its users’ privacy when served with a sealed court order to turn over some users’ information without even notifying the users. Instead of complying, Twitter filed a motion to unseal…