A study by Chris Hoofnagle was in the news last week because it suggests that young people do care about privacy more than some other studies or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook would have us believe. Dan Solove comments on another aspect of the study: People believe that privacy violations should be punished — and quite…
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Web Coupons Know a Lot About You, and They Tell
Stephanie Clifford reports: For decades, shoppers have taken advantage of coupons. Now, the coupons are taking advantage of the shoppers. A new breed of coupon, printed from the Internet or sent to mobile phones, is packed with information about the customer who uses it. While the coupons look standard, their bar codes can be loaded…
Privacy groups file FTC complaint on behavioral ads
Grant Gross reports: Three privacy groups have filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about behavioral advertising practices, accusing Google, Yahoo and other advertising vendors of creating a “Wild West” atmosphere with few rules for protecting consumer privacy. The complaint, filed Thursday by the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), U.S. PIRG and the…
The Unvarnished privacy policy
Ryan Calo has been blogging about a personal reputation website, Unvarnished. In his first post, Ryan began: Like many of you, I’m trying to figure out what the personal reputation website Unvarnished (now in beta) is all about. I notice that I need to sign in through Facebook Connect before I can kick the proverbial…