Just before the end of 2010, both the Commerce Department (here) and the Federal Trade Commission (here) released their agencies’ respective proposals for privacy frameworks in the United States. The reports make similar proposals in some respects, but in others are quite different. We have prepared a comparison report on both. (Thanks to Mintz Levin… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Privacy Policies
FTC to Industry on Consumer Privacy: You “Must Do Better” – UPDATE
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Legislation, Online AdvertisingFTC Report Supports “Do-Not-Track” and sets out comprehensive framework for consumer privacy
FTC Highlights Need for Privacy and Security in Internet Commerce
Posted in LegislationWritten by Jillian Collins The Federal Trade Commission has weighed in as part of the Department of Commerce’s public comment process on privacy and security issues. According to the FTC’s comment, consumers trusting that their personal information will be safeguarded is essential to the success of e-commerce, and innovation is essential to ensuring privacy in… Continue Reading
Some “light reading” for privacy geeks…
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityOr, actually, for anyone interested in building privacy into business from the “ground up” and how privacy can (and should) become a business differentiator. Dr. Ann Cavoukian is Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and has long been an advocate of privacy technologies and coined the term “Privacy by Design” in the late-nineties. Her latest book… Continue Reading
Some Social Networking Developments
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityIf you are a regular user of online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, you want to check out a new research paper by a couple of researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytech that points to some disturbing evidence of the “leakage” of personally identifiable information from the social networking sites… Continue Reading
A “Wayback Machine” for Privacy Policies??
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityThe typical “boilerplate” (lawyers’ hate that word, BTW) in website Terms of Use goes as follows: “We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use at any time. You should check back to this page to view changes. Continued use of this website is deemed acceptance of any such changes.” Ever wonder what… Continue Reading
FTC: BT Inquiry Coming “Soon”
Posted in LegislationApparently, the FTC plans on stepping up the Commission’s inquiries into online behavioral tracking. That’s what an American Bar Association Antitrust Section conference on consumer protection heard last week from two senior FTC officials. On his third day on the job, David Vladeck, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said he plans to… Continue Reading
