Sara Jerome reports: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) plans to introduce an online privacy bill next week directing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to begin a “do not track” program for online advertisers, a Speier aide told The Hill. The program would enable consumers to “opt out” of tracking by online advertisers. The aide said the…
Category: Laws
Ad Nets Ignore Do-Not-Track At Their Own Peril
Wendy Davis reports: The prospect of an easy-to-use browser-based opt-out for behavioral advertising advanced this week with Mozilla’s release of a preliminary version of a do-not-track header. But this newest tool is only an early — and potentially buggy — version of the header. An even bigger obstacle for people who want to test the feature…
In the UK, public’s right to know a criminal’s sensitive personal information extremely limited
A recent blog post generated some comments on Twitter about the privacy rights of criminals vs. the desire of victims’ families to know more and the public’s right or need to evaluate the performance of governmental agencies. While transparency and freedom of information are often clarion calls in the U.S., it appears that criminals in…
The Deidentification Dilemma: A Legislative and Contractual Proposal
Bob Gellman always provides a lot of food for thought (see, for example, his recent comment on another post and the article he links to). Another one of his papers, mentioned in a past post, is now published in the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (2011, vol 21, 33-61) and is available…