Comments on: Newsflash: Congress Discovers that Web Firms Track Data

By: Advertisers: Pay No Attention to the Data We Are Stealing

Advertisers: Pay No Attention to the Data We Are Stealing — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:05:16 +0000

[...] to the Emerald City? Because the principles are the online advertisers’ attempts to stave off government regulation around protecting consumers’ online privacy by diverting attention to the Great and Powerful Principles rather than the data scavenging [...]

By: FTC to Take a Deep Look at DPI? | Design Website

FTC to Take a Deep Look at DPI? | Design Website — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:14:01 +0000

[...] is a sentiment that’s filtered through Congress in the last year, as consumers and Capitol Hill are made aware of invasive practices such as search [...]

By: FTC to Take a Deep Look at DPI?

FTC to Take a Deep Look at DPI? — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:02:34 +0000

[...] is a sentiment that’s filtered through Congress in the last year, as consumers and Capitol Hill are made aware of invasive practices such as search [...]

By: Europe’s Privacy Concerns May Hinder Facebook

Europe’s Privacy Concerns May Hinder Facebook — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:13:30 +0000

[...] how much digitized data is shared online, and how emerging data analytics can make such a wide body of data relevant and useful to [...]

By: NebuAd Bites the Dust

NebuAd Bites the Dust — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:10:59 +0000

[...] which is akin to Phorm in the UK, had conducted advertising trials with several U.S. ISP including Cable One and CenturyTel. When it signed up Charter as a customer last summer, a backlash ensued that led to a congressional [...]

By: Privacy’s Next Battleground Will Be Your Phone

Privacy’s Next Battleground Will Be Your Phone — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:15:55 +0000

[...] Newsflash: Congress Discovers that Web Firms Track Data [...]

By: Key Telco Legislator Jumps To Energy

Key Telco Legislator Jumps To Energy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:32:05 +0000

[...] 2009 | 2:35 PM PT | 0 comments Congressman Edward Markey, a key proponent of net neutrality and online privacy, will leave his position on the committee that deals with telecommunications regulation to chair [...]

By: Yahoo Will Delete Some Data After 3 Months

Yahoo Will Delete Some Data After 3 Months — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:49:01 +0000

[...] search firms are responding to increasing government and consumer concern about online privacy–namely a European Union effort to get search firms to delete user [...]

By: Telcos will drop more money in DC next year |

Telcos will drop more money in DC next year | — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:39:40 +0000

[...] to the head of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce — which you may remember for its investigation into how web firms use consumer data — and convened two hearings into online [...]

By: Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress - GigaOM

Telcos Will See a More Activist Congress - GigaOM — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:34:40 +0000

[...] to the head of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce — which you may remember for its investigation into how web firms use consumer data — and convened two hearings into online [...]

By: Carriers Demand More Data, Consumers Get Less Privacy - GigaOM

Carriers Demand More Data, Consumers Get Less Privacy - GigaOM — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:07:49 +0000

[...] of Nokia Siemens Networks, indicates that carriers have bigger plans for data. Taking a page from web firms such as Google or Facebook, they want to know — in detail — how their subscribers are using wireless broadband, in order [...]

By: In Online Privacy Fight, Google Blinks | Zensible

In Online Privacy Fight, Google Blinks | Zensible — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:23:18 +0000

[...] the data after nine months rather than 18, which is has been compelled to do after EU and U.S. reglators turned greater attention to the lack of privacy on the web. The negative publicity and government scrutiny drawn by deep [...]

By: Akamai Joins The Targeted Advertising Rush - GigaOM

Akamai Joins The Targeted Advertising Rush - GigaOM — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:27:21 +0000

[...] for $95 million, and launch an advertising product called Advertising Decision Solutions. Get ready for another wave of Internet privacy debates, although my bet is users and politicians will find this far less frightening than having an ISP [...]

By: In Online Privacy Fight, Google Blinks - GigaOM

In Online Privacy Fight, Google Blinks - GigaOM — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:47:46 +0000

By: PSM

PSM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:53:40 +0000

to michaelportent:

Deep packet inspection. This means that even if you clean your hard drive, wipe your blank space, use ad blocking software, block cookies, they can still inspect the packets that your IPs is sending and receiving to figure out where you have been. There isn’t a way to clean IP packets.

By: Your Cable Box Knows You So Well - GigaOM

Your Cable Box Knows You So Well - GigaOM — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:47:01 +0000

[...] And transparency hasn’t been the standard so far. Online privacy issues have attracted politicians in Europe and North America, who are trying to figure out the best ways to regulate such practices. Earlier this month the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent out letters to more than 30 companies, ranging from Google to bandwidth provider Level 3 Communications to multiple ISPs. The letters asked the businesses to detail what information they tracked about users of their services, what they did with that information and what they told the users they were up to. The results were eye-opening for the mainstream media. [...]