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…
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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…
French court rules against Google over book copying
Sophie Hardach reports: A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and…
Privacy Groups Bring Facebook Complaints to FTC
Robert McMillan reports: Ten privacy and consumer groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S.Federal Trade Commission, saying that Facebook’s newly revamped privacy settings are deceptive and unfair. Facebook unveiled the new privacy settings last week, saying that they were giving users more granular control over their settings,…