In a letter (PDF) to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, say “active supervision of the settlement by the court and the United States will protect the public interest far more than any…
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For my reading list…
Every so often, I try to spend a bit of time on SSRN to see what new articles are available that might be of interest. Here are seven recently posted abstracts, below. For most of them, the full-text version is also available as a free download: Finkin, Matthew W., On Restating the Common Law of…
Levi’s tags: more than just your jeans
I’m confident that Levis.com is not the only web site of concern, but this case study suggests that the public really often has no clue how their information is being tracked or used: Dwyer, Catherine Ann, Behavioral Targeting: A Case Study of Consumer Tracking on Levis.com (August 6, 2009). Abstract: Behavioral targeting is an online…
Google to abide with Swiss court ruling
Google will comply with an expected Swiss court ruling into whether its Street View web service fails to protect people’s privacy by showing their faces and licence plates, the company and Swiss authorities said. The company is accused of failing to obscure such sensitive images from its photo mapping application sufficiently and setting cameras at…