The Communications Act gives Ofcom the power to act when a person or company makes persistent misuse of a communications network. The Government has just raised the maximum penalty for such misuse from £50,000 to £2 million. Ofcom has now published revised guidance on the circumstances in which it will take action against the companies…
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IAB retracts 48-hour retargeting cookie advice
Online advertising trade body the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has withdrawn a code of practice which recommended that behavioural advertising retargeting cookies should expire after 48 hours. The IAB’s Affiliate Marketing Council (AMC) published the code last week. It applied to the practice of ‘retargeting’ web users who had visited a site with ads for…
FTC Consumer Protection Head Shares New Vision for Consumer Privacy
David Vladeck, the head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, shared his vision for consumer privacy protection with an audience at the IAPP’s Privacy Academy on September 30, 2010. […] Mr. Vladeck noted three key areas for future enforcement. The FTC will (1) bring more cases involving “pure” privacy, i.e., cases…
Data Privacy in Pakistan
This is a call information of a customer subscribed to one of the leading cellular services of this country. It contains information regarding customer name, the phone number, all the numbers that the customer dialed, when and for how long. I have edited the information of course. [Note- the image is much larger on the…