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P3P: Green light for online privacy?
News Here's how it works: As soon as someone using an application equipped with P3P technology accesses a Web site, the technology scans the page's P3P privacy policy. Starting next year, Web sites that violate user privacy are going to find themselves...
[July 5, 2000, 13:21]
Government criticised for limiting online privacy
News Bohm believes it has been government policy to limit the use of cryptography in the UK. It has been government policy, inspired by GCHQ, to discourage the use of cryptography," Bohm said. A DTI spokesman confirmed that encryption software is...
[September 9, 1999, 7:15]
FTC will back online privacy groups
News David Medine, associate director for financial practices at the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, said the policy would give more clout to the group's seals of approval as more and more consumers become aware of Web-related privacy concerns.
[October 8, 1999, 9:32]
A Year Ago: FTC will back online privacy groups
News David Medine, associate director for financial practices at the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, said the policy would give more clout to the group's seals of approval as more and more consumers become aware of Web-related privacy concerns.
[October 9, 2000, 7:02]
AOL is keeping an eye on you
News A recent addition to America Online's privacy policy clears the way for the company to use online tracking tools, including cookies and Web bugs, to compile anonymous data about its members and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
[October 8, 2001, 10:46]
Disney shares customer Web data
News Walt Disney has revised its online privacy policy to allow the sharing of user information to third parties, the company confirmed on Tuesday. New registrants who accept Disney's privacy policy during registration also accept all marketing options...
[December 24, 2003, 8:40]
Companies rethink customer data privacy
News I've never seen a privacy policy that says that we will make all of our records available to authorities in a case of national emergency, and I think as a result of this, you're probably going to see companies adjust their privacy policies to take...
[October 2, 2001, 14:30]
US Report: FTC study takes Web to woodshed over privacy
News America Online meanwhile, unveiled a privacy policy of its own Wednesday. The simple notice and consent the FTC looked for in the study "is an incredibly low baseline," said David Banisar, policy counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
[June 4, 1998, 9:15]
Can you trust TRUSTe?
News Sites qualify for the seals by agreeing to post their privacy policies online, and allowing seal providers to audit their operations to ensure they're adhering to the policy. These programs are great for public relations, because the companies can...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
DejaNews To Stop Tracking Addresses
News The new policy comes just days after computer sleuth Richard Smith discovered the company was collecting records of responses to online postings without visitors' permission, potentially setting up the conditions for significant privacy invasion.
[May 5, 1999, 11:32]
Web firms scramble to obey privacy law
News The definition of a financial institution is broad under Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and many companies that have never had to worry about these kinds of regulations are now having to," said Ann Toth, director of privacy policy at Yahoo!
[July 2, 2001, 10:15]
Get more secure - or else!
News I would urge every CEO in this country to personally inspect their company's privacy policy. Swindle praised companies including IBM, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble for refusing to advertise on Web sites that don't have a clear cut privacy policy.
[March 15, 2000, 9:58]
Watchdogs bark at eBay's privacy update
News EBay is updating its privacy policy and user agreements, making it easier for the company to disclose members' personal information or to ban people from the site. EBay periodically updates both its user agreement and privacy policy to reflect new...
[February 27, 2002, 15:47]
Amazon.com taken to task over child privacy
News That's not good enough, say the groups, which claim that Amazon "operates a site featuring products tantalising to children and then disclaims any responsibility for marketing to children by asserting in its privacy policy that it technically only...
[April 23, 2003, 8:48]
Privacy snafu enrages eBay customers
News The same problem may have kept customers from getting updates on eBay's privacy policy or notifications that someone else had bid on something they are trying to buy, both of which are usually answered with a "yes", Pursglove said.
[January 10, 2001, 9:39]
ISPs, lawmakers debate ad-privacy regulations
News AT&T does not use a deep-packet approach but will engage in targeted ads, only after a consumer has consented," said Dorothy Attwood, AT&T Services' vice president of public policy and chief privacy officer.
[September 26, 2008, 10:14]
US privacy groups call Amazon policy 'deceptive'
News Amazon.com's new privacy policy deceives consumers and violates laws against unfair business practices, privacy groups wrote Monday in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission. The initial wording in Amazon's privacy policy gave assurances it would...
[December 5, 2000, 14:14]
Web bug swarm grows 500 percent
News CNET Networks, the publisher of News.com, also makes use of Web bugs, a practice disclosed in the company's privacy policy. It also validates efforts by privacy advocates to combat the rising use of such surveillance.
[August 15, 2001, 10:09]
Europe moves away from cookie clampdown
News Internet users will not be warned before a cookie is installed on their computer if the European Parliament accepts the recommendations of one of its key committees, even though privacy advocates are pushing for an opt-in policy.
[April 18, 2002, 16:23]
MPs call for one, simplified privacy law
News The UK should have a new, simple privacy law to protect citizens both online and offline, a cross-party group of parliamentarians has recommended. The report made 11 recommendations, the first of which was for "a green paper on privacy, with a view...
[October 16, 2009, 17:42]
