PIPEDA Case Summary #2009-013 The complainant was perturbed by the number of unsolicited e-mails he received from a publisher marketing a Canadian directory of funding sources. Even when he asked the company to remove his various e-mail addresses from its list, the company continued to send him messages. For its part, the company contended that…
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The Real Privacy Paradox
Larry Downes comments on yesterday’s FTC roundtable as well as a recent survey in discussing the so-called “privacy paradox.” He writes, in part: As I write in Law Two of The Laws of Disruption (“Personal Information”), researchers, advocacy groups and their colleagues in the mainstream media have for years been describing what they call “the…
Ngo: Online targeted advertising discussed at FTC roundtable
Melissa Ngo of Privacy Lives blogged about her participation and the issues addressed in yesterday’s first of three FTC Roundtable: The Federal Trade Commission had the first of three privacy roundtables yesterday, and I spoke on a panel about online targeted behavioral advertising. The other speakers on the panel were: Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center…
DoD cancels EchoMetrix contract after EPIC complaint (updated)
Back in September, PogoWasRight.org reported that EPIC.org had filed a complaint with the FTC about EchoMetrix, a developer of software for monitoring of online activity. As reported at the time, EPIC alleged that EchoMetrix analyzes the information collected from children and sells the data to third parties for marketing or intelligence purposes while claiming it…