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When Mobile Phones Are RFID-Equipped - Finding E.U.-U.S. Solutions to Protect Consumer Privacy and Facilitate Mobile Commerce
White Papers New mobile phones have been designed to include delivery of mobile advertising and other useful location-based services, but have they also been designed to protect consumers' privacy? One of the key enabling technologies for these new types of...
[November 20, 2009, 0:25]
Privacy camp threatens to extend Intel boycott
News In letters to Compaq, Dell , Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, and later published on the Internet on Monday, the groups said "the organisers are considering extending the boycott to major PC manufacturers who ship Pentium III systems in a...
[February 17, 1999, 9:32]
Facebook hit by user-privacy lawsuit
News A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit on Monday that alleges the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The 40-page complaint accuses the Palo Alto, California-based company of violating California privacy...
[August 18, 2009, 8:23]
Google proposes global privacy standard
News While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard for how companies protect consumer data, the search giant is recommending that remedies focus on whether a person was harmed by having the information exposed.
[September 14, 2007, 8:36]
Get more secure - or else!
News The tech industry has a choice: Develop real proposals for protecting consumer privacy and network security or stand back and watch the US government do it. Although he said government regulation of general consumer privacy issues is premature...
[March 15, 2000, 9:58]
Critics fight RIAA file-trader action
News A dozen consumer and privacy groups filed an amicus brief in federal court in Washington D.C.arguing that the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) request for information about a Verizon Communications subscriber should be denied.
[September 2, 2002, 15:01]
Privacy activists call for rules on RFID
News A handful of technology and consumer privacy experts testifying at a California senate hearing on Monday called for regulation of a controversial technology that's designed to wirelessly monitor everything from clothing to currency.
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
Transparency 'crucial' for RFID systems
News Several consumer organisations on Wednesday called on the European Commission to ensure that there is increased transparency in RFID systems, to ensure that consumers' privacy is protected. Other steps that can be taken to product consumer privacy...
[May 17, 2006, 16:30]
Media blamed for consumer online fears
News The government and the media are widely blamed for feeding consumer fears over privacy online and hobbling e-commerce, according to a report from research firm Jupiter Communications. Intense media coverage of online privacy and government focus on...
[August 18, 1999, 10:49]
Campaigners call for Google privacy policy link
News The groups include the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the World Privacy Forum, Consumer Action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Federation of California and ACLU of Northern California. Privacy policies can be complex and not consumer...
[June 5, 2008, 11:29]
Groups take EU privacy fight public
News They urged the U.S.and the EU to work together on an international convention on privacy to safeguard consumer privacy and bolster e-commerce. In addition to the resolution opposing the safe harbour plan, the TACD also passed resolutions urging the...
[April 29, 1999, 14:09]
Amazon to revamp privacy policy
News Online retail giant Amazon.com plans to revamp its privacy policy in an attempt to address concerns raised by customers, consumer advocates and state regulators. In sum, we believe the changes to our privacy notice will make our privacy practices...
[September 26, 2002, 8:02]
UK Web sites fare badly on consumer rights
News Many European Web sites lack basic such consumer-protection measures as a privacy policy and information about order cancellations, despite EU directives requiring them, according to a new pan-European study.
[April 30, 2003, 16:45]
Web sites fail to protect privacy
News The vast majority of European and US Web sites are failing to protect users' privacy, according to a UK-based consumer interest group Thursday. This widespread neglect of good privacy practice is all the more worrying when you consider that...
[January 25, 2001, 16:12]
Microsoft takes Passport to Washington
News Last week, nearly 15 privacy and consumer groups amended a 26 July complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission charging that Microsoft by offering Passport and associated services is engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices in...
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
News These organisations, including Britain's Foundation for Information Policy Reseach and Privacy International, have backed a position statement on the use of RFID on consumer products that was issued on Thursday.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
Privacy watchdogs mull Engage's future
News Privacy advocates are bracing for a signal that beleaguered online ad network Engage plans to dump its media business, promising to protest any potential sale that would transfer ownership of the company's extensive database of anonymous consumer...
[August 10, 2001, 9:42]
Search engines race to update privacy policies
News Microsoft and Ask.com also are proposing an industry effort to create voluntary standards for protecting consumer privacy with search and online ads, a move that is likely spurred by Google's plan to acquire a leader in the online ad market.
[July 23, 2007, 8:04]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News Representatives of AT&T, Verizon Communications and Time Warner Cable addressed the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation during a hearing on broadband provider practices and consumer privacy.
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
Internet World: Digitalme does little for privacy, yet
News It's a market-driven decision, but it's not really good for the consumer," said Jason Catlett, president of privacy information firm Junkbusters. Growing consumer concern about privacy on the Internet and growing corporate interest in meeting...
[October 6, 1999, 16:18]
