Lawmakers are working on privacy safeguards for online advertising. Here are some links to news stories sent in by a PogoWasRight.org reader: Emily Steel reports, “Lawmakers Draft Web-Ad Privacy Safeguards,” in the Wall Street Journal. A press release issued by Consumer Watchdog, “Consumer and Privacy Groups Warn Online Tracking at ‘Alarming Levels,’ Joint Letter to…
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Amazon Starts Sharing What You’ve Highlighted on Your Kindle
Mathew Ingram writes: Amazon, in a potentially controversial move, has started collecting information on what readers highlight in the e-books they’re reading on the company’s Kindle reader, and sharing it with others. The service doesn’t say which sections of which specific books a reader has highlighted, but it aggregates that information and displays it —…
Shoppers Who Can’t Have Secrets
Natasha Singer writes: […] In a country where we have a comprehensive federal law — the Fair Credit Reporting Act — giving us the right to obtain and correct financial data collected about us, no general federal statute requires behavioral data marketers to show us our files, says Ms. Rich of the F.T.C. So, is…
Observations on the Dept. of Commerce’s Privacy Inquiry
David Navetta comments: Earlier in the week, I referenced the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Notice of Inquiry concerning “Information Privacy and Innovation in the Internet Economy” (the “Inquiry”). I have now had a chance to review the document in more detail and believe that this Inquiry and the report that it generates has the potential…