Jeremy Kirk reports: A company that compiles profiles of Internet users for targeted advertising said it is no longer passing user identifiers used by Facebook and MySpace to advertising networks due to privacy concerns. Rapleaf, a company based in San Francisco, acknowledged the issue, which was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal series of stories…
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Privacy Advocate Withdraws from RapLeaf Advisory Board
Julia Angwin reports: Jim Dempsey, a privacy advocate at the Center for Democracy and Technology, said he resigned from RapLeaf Inc.’s privacy advisory board after being contacted by the Wall Street Journal about his role at the Internet tracking company. Mr. Dempsey is a vice president at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington…
UK’s ICO to re-examine Google
Britain’s privacy watchdog is to look again at what personal information internet giant Google gathered from private wi-fi networks. The Information Commissioner’s Office had investigated a sample earlier this year after it was revealed that Google had collected personal data during its Street View project. At the time, it said no “significant” personal details were…
FTC To Recommend Self-Regulation, Not New Laws Says Commission Member
Wendy Davis reports that online ad companies may have escaped government regulation for now: The Federal Trade Commission’s upcoming report about behavioral advertising will include suggestions for how online ad companies can better protect consumers’ privacy, but won’t recommend that Congress enact new laws, commission member Julie Brill said on Tuesday. “The Commission isn’t calling…