President Obama Conducts Big Data Review; NJ Big Data Consent Decree and BBB Enforcement
White House Enlists John Podesta to Conduct Review of Big Data Former Chief of Staff to President Clinton, John Podesta, has been enlisted by President Obama to work with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz, the President’s Science Advisor John Holdren, the President’s Economic Advisor Gene Sperling and other senior government officials to lead…
Parliament Hill: Canada Acts on Privacy, Spam and Competition Issues
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Tags Google for Medical BT In only her second month on the job, Interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier took on one of the giants of the Internet – Google. Bernier cited Google for sending targeted ads for medical conditions based on consumer searches which violates Canada’s “Privacy and Online Behavioural Advertising Guidelines”…
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Special Report: Entering the Ramirez Era
OBAMA LOOKS WEST FOR NEW FTC CHAIR On Monday, FTC Commissioner Edith Ramirez takes over as FTC Chairwoman. Ramirez, a law school classmate of the President and former partner at the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, is the FTC’s first Latina chair. She previously has expressed strong interest in privacy stressing that she…
Segment 2: Congress Tackles Big Data With Informatica’s Bill Sullivan
BILL SULLIVAN, Vice President and General Manager for Public Sector for Informatica, will call in from Washington to discuss Big Data and its increased scrutiny by both Congress and the FTC. Related Posts Congress Tackles Big Data FTC and Big Data Bill Sullivan and Informatica Bill Sullivan is Vice President & General Manager, Public Sector at…
Rubicon Project Featured in NYT Piece on Privacy
CONGRATULATIONS YOU FOR SALE Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant . . . One big player in this space is the Rubicon Project. Never heard of it? Consider this: Rubicon, based in Los Angeles, has actually eclipsed Google in one crucial area — the percentage of Internet users in the United States reached by display ads…
CLBR Segment 2: News Update and Debates
NEWS UPDATE & FOLLOW UP Google to Block YouTube Video in Brazil Google Brazil to Take Down Controversial Video Chief Arrested Over Video Google Brazil Chief Arrested Over YouTube Video Cal Enacts Anti-Social Media Snooping Law Praised by ACLU Prof Goldman is a critic See Backgrounder for May 16th CLBR on this topic FTC Watch…
International: EU Cookie Law and UN Push for Internet Control
Cookie Directive In Force in UK and Much of EU Last month the UK’s cookie directive went into effect after a year in which the UK postponed enforcement to build awareness. The law specifically required that a person not store or gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user unless…
CLBR Segment 1: EU Cookie Directive Goes Into Effect
GUESTS: Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy Journal and Chris Babel, TRUSTe See EU Cookie Law Notebook for Background Robert Ellis Smith Publisher – Privacy Journal Smith is an American attorney, author, and a publisher/journalist whose focus is mainly privacy rights. Robert began his career in journalism during high school and while attending Harvard. He was President of The Harvard…
EU Cookie Law Notebook
1. EU Cookie Directive Opinion 04/2012 on Cookie Consent Exemption 2. The Law Explained UK Information Commission ICC UK Cookie Guide Silktide (opponent – (Nocookielaw.com)) Video: The stupid EU cookie law in 2½ minutes Video: The stupid EU cookie law (and why it should die) 3. Conusmer Research and Compliance (TRUSTe Materials) 4. Implementation Click…
WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES CONSUMER PRIVACY BILL OF RIGHTS
The White House announcement came as the Digital Advertising Alliance agreed to support embedding do not track buttons in browsers. Key principals of the proposals are: Individual Control: Consumers have a right to exercise control over what personal data companies collect from them and how they use it. Transparency: Consumers have a right to easily…
NEXT ON CL&BR (Part 1): GOOGLE CONTROVERSIES
Cyber Law and Business Report – February 22, 2012 Anniversary of 1980 “Miracle on Ice” hockey game SEGMENT ONE – THE LATEST GOOGLE CONTROVERSIES WITH PRIVACY JOURNAL’S ROBERT ELLIS SMITH Robert Ellis Smith is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney to report on the individual’s right to privacy. Since 1974, he has…
DAA Wins Praise for Expansion of Self Reg Principles, Facebook Draws Fire for Offline Tracking
DAA Wins Praise From FTC, Expands Self-Regulatory Principles Facebook Draws Fire from Rockefeller Two years ago the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers, the American Advertising Federation, the Direct Marketing Association, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Network Advertising Initiative joined forces to create the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) to develop…
This Week on CLBR: Privacy Research and Cyber Thanksgiving
Lorrie Faith Cranor from Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab discusses her recent research on privacy disclosures and behavioral targeting and in the second half we discuss our favorite websites. Related Research Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out Ad Choices? Compliance with Online Behavioral Advertising’s Notice and Choice Requirements Standardizing Privacy Notices: An Online Study of the Nutrition Label Approach
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