White House Cookies: Wrap-Up of the Open Government Brainstorming: Participation
The White House Open Government site will be hosting discussion of a few issues on Friday, including suggestions by FPF, CDT, EFF and Professor Peter Swire about updating the current government policy around the use of cookies. The topic listed is as follows: Update the cookies policy to come up to speed with the latest […]
Facebook Ad Network Crackdown
We are glad to see reports of Facebook cracking down on ad networks improperly using user data, as well as deceptive come-ons. We believe that many of the of the problems of the online advertising system have been due to publishers and advertising leaving privacy and ad quality issues entirely to their ad network partners. […]
"Know Privacy" Report Contains Interesting Observations
“KnowPrivacy” is a collaborative research project by Class of 2009 graduates of the Masters program at the University of California Berkeley School of Information. FPF advisory board member Chris Hoofnagle helped advise the students. In the project, the students examined the common practices among website operators of collecting, sharing and analyzing data about their users, […]
What would Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor say about behavioral ads and consent?
The following is a guest post from one of our summer legal fellows, Noam Kutler of GWU School of Law. As many of you reading this blog are aware, FPF focuses a good deal of attention on the issue of online behavioral advertising and the need for greater consumer control and transparency.The FTC has issued […]
White House Open Government Dialogue launched – comment on cookies proposal.
Just got off conference call with Beth Noveck at the White House Office of Science and Tech Policy as they launched their new open dialogue site. It is pretty cool – check it out by reviewing and commenting on the FPF proposal on government use of cookies. Thumbs up or down?
Future of Privacy Forum Announces Research Initiative To Develop Effective Messages to Communicate with Users about Online Data Use
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2009 – Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) announced a major research initiative that will examine different methods for communicating with users about online advertising and privacy practices. The study will explore potential tools and notices that companies could use to raise consumer awareness regarding the use of online behavioral advertising […]
CDT Hosts Discussion on Analytics Tools Use on Government Web Sites
PolicyBeta – Blog Archive – CDT Hosts Discussion on Analytics Tools Use on Government Web Sites. I need to be in NYC Tuesday, so will be disappointed to miss what looks to be a well done report and good discussion about cookie on government Web sites, govt use of social media and so on. We […]
Future of Privacy Forum Letter to the White Office of Science and Technology Policy
Following is the test of the letter we sent to the White House in response to the call for feedback on the President’s memo on Openness and Transparency April 3, 2009 Dear Ms. Noveck: The Future of Privacy Forum is providing the below suggestions to offer a roadmap for enabling use […]
MediaPost Publications The Further Adventures Of Opt-In Man
Excellent review by Behavioral Insider’s Steve Smith of how networks are beginning to provide users access to profiles and a roadmap to make this more useful for users. The eXelate widgetised version of a profile viewer that publishers or advertisers could provide at their own sites seems to make sense — if there was a […]
TRUSTe Webinar – March 30, 2009
Jules will be participating in the TRUSTe Webinar on March 26, 2009. The webinar will explore how advertising has supported the Internet’s remarkable growth and seems to represent a viable revenue stream for many sites for the foreseeable future. The Internet offers the potential of perfect targeting – delivering just the right ad to each […]