A group of the nation’s largest media and marketing trade associations today released self-regulatory principles to protect consumer privacy in ad-supported interactive media that will require advertisers and Web sites to clearly inform consumers about data collection practices and enable them to exercise control over that information. This unprecedented collaboration represents the entire marketing-media industry…
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Facebook wants you to be less private
Facebook will be revamping their privacy controls over the next few weeks. The plan is to consolidate existing privacy pages more than two dozen settings into a single privacy page. But at least one person on the conference call today was left with nagging questions. Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb comments: But it is pretty clear…
Webinar: Data Breach Prevention, Ounce of Prevention = Pound of Cure
IDExperts is offering a free webinar about planning and preparing for a data breach, presented by Certified Information Privacy Professional Eric Nelson. More information here. Registration required. Times shown below are PST.
Banks: All your cellphone are belong to us
I was grumbling at a privacy conference about my bank’s privacy policy and that it seemed impossible to get a bank to truly delete records and take back your data from affiliates if you no longer had an account. Why should we be contacted in perpetuity if we are no longer customers? In response to…