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Jules Polonetsky moderated a panel called “The Collection of Online Consumer Data: The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown.”  The panel discussed multiple privacy related issues including the manner in which companies use data and protecting consumer data through privacy measures.

[…] are not in the marketplace and to legislate in the realm of the possible and not the actual,” said Mike Zaneis. “They should be looking at actual bad actions or really probable future bad results for consumers before they really take legislation seriously.” FPF Co-Chair Chris Wolf also presented at the conference on a […]

[…] most panelists expressed the view that self-regulation is more adept to change in contrast with government regulations, they also acknowledged that further FTC enforcement against the “ bad actors” is a good thing. “People sometimes forget that we are not a membership driven program. We are an industry-wide program, which means that your bad […]

[…] will be.” Christopher Wolf quoted: “There always needs be a policy to provide levels of protection, or at least transparency, about how the data will be used,” says Christopher Wolf of the Future of Privacy Forum. “It’s not the technology that’s bad, it’s the use of the technology.” Click here to read the full article.

Prof Turow’s study of consumer attitudes toward behavioral advertising reported in the NY Times today is a severe indictment of the current state of behavioral advertising. Consumers just do not like the feeling of being tracked. What can companies do about it? How about take Turow’s advice! Despite the significant concerns captured by the poll, […]

[…] use. But I think this story about lenders being pitched the idea of my social network friends being used to influence my credit is a very, very bad idea.  This is the kind of idea that convinces lawmakers and advocates that the entire behavioral advertising business model is unacceptable. I hope Rapleaf will rethink […]

[…] Deserves Detention” featured a survey of information comprised of input from a preliminary online survey of privacy professionals. Members of the audience then voted on good and bad practices in which various organizations and corporations are currently engaging. At the end of the session Chris and Jules announced the “cheer” and “jeer” that received […]

[…] we want. And, of course, we hope we can NOT share all of our data with a new site, just because we want to use our FB credentials and friend network on the site. Eagerly awaiting a look and this implementation – will need to ping our busy friend FaceBook CPO Chris Kelly to […]