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Truste Seeks To Stem Flood Of Spam
News Privacy seal group Truste on Thursday will announce the launch of a new service to help police unsolicited commercial email, or spam. Under the new plan, email sent by volunteer "trusted sender-certified" companies will contain a seal that...
[January 31, 2002, 14:14]
Can You Trust TRUSTe?
News With three licensees in six months under fire for privacy violations, nonprofit privacy initiative TRUSTe is facing doubts about its ability to protect consumers' privacy online. TRUSTe and other privacy services "come in after the fact and say...
[November 3, 1999, 9:38]
RealNetworks Rethinks Privacy Plan
News In the wake of an embarrassing privacy flap, RealNetworks committed Monday to work with industry privacy monitor TRUSTe on a five-point plan to "rebuild trust with its consumers. TRUSTe launched an official investigation into RealNetwork's data...
[November 9, 1999, 9:54]
FTC Will Back Online Privacy Groups
News The Federal Trade Commission said it plans to fast-track online privacy complaints that are referred to it by organizations such as TRUSTe. An FTC representative at Internet World in New York said complaints sent by organisations that dole out...
[October 8, 1999, 9:32]
A Year Ago: FTC Will Back Online Privacy Groups
News The Federal Trade Commission said it plans to fast-track online privacy complaints that are referred to it by organizations such as TRUSTe. An FTC representative at Internet World in New York said complaints sent by organisations that dole out...
[October 9, 2000, 7:02]
Spam Fears Dampen Online Christmas Shopping
News Nearly half of consumers are planning to limit their online shopping during the Christmas season due to fears related to privacy, with smaller online retailers particularly affected, according to a survey commissioned by nonprofit certification...
[December 1, 2003, 16:55]
Fraudulent E-commerce Site Proves Hard To Close
News The site, unlockedPhones-UK.com, has been discovered to be displaying fake security certificates from security companies VeriSign and TRUSTe, and is using the address of an unconnected legitimate UK mobile phone company called mPhone Ltd.
[December 1, 2003, 16:50]
Web Giants Launch Trusted Downloads
News The program is set to begin early next year in a trial version, when the Internet partners will get access to a list of applications certified by TRUSTe, according to a statement from the group. With consumers downloading more and more software, it...
[November 16, 2005, 10:50]
Crawler Toolbar
Downloads This product is a TRUSTe Trusted Download. The TRUSTe Trusted Download Program publishes a "whitelist" of certified applications. Enhance your Internet experience and your computer's desktop environment with the easy-to-use, feature-packed, free...
[August 22, 2007, 20:27]
Privacy Snafu Enrages EBay Customers
News TrustE at first gave its okay. Online privacy group TrustE said the eBay changes raise privacy concerns and it plans to grill execs about it in the next few days. This is a change of mind for TrustE, one of several groups that eBay briefed on the...
[January 10, 2001, 9:39]
Symantec Sues Over 'adware' Toolbars
News Additionally, privacy group Truste has revoked Hotbar's right to its seal of approval. The seal is still featured on Hotbar's privacy policy page, but now links to an error page warning that "www.hotbar.com IS NOT A VALID TRUSTe MEMBER WEB SITE.
[June 9, 2005, 10:25]
Surveillance 2: Should We Be Our Own Coppers?
News TRUSTe, a non-profit consortium formed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and sponsored by e-commerce heavyweights including AOL, AdForce and Microsoft, thinks industry self-regulation is the answer.
[February 25, 2000, 9:28]
DejaNews To Stop Tracking Addresses
News Since DejaNews is a member of the TrustE industry group, it is required to post to its Web site notice of any and all information it gathers from visitors. As a result, TrustE Spokeswoman Anne Jennings said, the group will likely issue some sort of...
[May 5, 1999, 11:32]
EBay Takes On Phishers With Email Service
News According to a report from online privacy watchdog Truste, seven out of 10 people who go online have received phishing emails, and 15 percent of those have been duped into providing personal information.eBay has been assertive in fighting scam...
[January 5, 2005, 7:55]
IBM Accused Of Lifting Privacy Language
News Sponsored by privacy-seal company Truste and the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the three-day conference centres on corporate data management, privacy compliance and marketing issues in the digital age.
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Yahoo! Updates Privacy Policy
News worked closely with Truste, which vouches for sound Internet privacy practices, to craft its changes. Web portal Yahoo! has revised its privacy policy to more clearly describe how personal data will be treated in certain circumstances, company...
[March 28, 2002, 16:24]
New Hotmail Hole Discovered
News Since that initial breach, the company has brought in TrustE and another auditing firm to help it head off future Hotmail security breaches. Just what the world didn't need: Another way to crack open Microsoft's beleaguered free, Web-based email...
[September 14, 1999, 9:06]
US Report: EU Privacy Plan Impact On US Unclear
News Probably nothing will happen until those talks conclude, but companies need to take a hard look at the directive to see if they are at least generally in compliance," said Susan Scott, executive director of TRUSTe, a non-profit online privacy...
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
Can MS Juggle Privacy And Security?
News Microsoft can't win for losing," said Fran Maier, executive director of Truste, a nonprofit organisation that certifies companies' privacy policies. We're a licensee of Truste, and they watch over and provide alternative dispute resolution in case...
[February 13, 2002, 15:43]
Netscape Parades Security Features
News Netscape uses information from parent AOL as well as from non-profit privacy group Truste, VeriSign and security software company Paretologic to compile the lists, which will be stored on the user's PC.
[May 19, 2005, 9:30]
