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Smartphone apps have come under increasing scrutiny in the last year, with a growing body of research and reporting showing that companies provide little information about what — or how — user data is collected and shared

Despite promising that they won’t reveal users’ personal data, some of the most highly trafficked Web sites transmit usernames, email addresses, addresses, and even birth dates to ad networks and other third parties, a new study confirms

Please click here to read a guest post by FPF’s Jules Polonetsky for steps consumers can take to protect their privacy before downloading apps. The Consumer Awareness Project is an effort dedicated to educating and informing consumers about online privacy issues.

GPS navigation and cellular-signal triangulation can help us to find our way around — or to help someone else find us. If you happen to be a lost pet, an Alzheimer’s patient or a small child, that’s a good thing. But what about the rest of us? Where do we stand legally in terms of […]

This feature enables marketers and website owners to provide effective privacy regulations on a global basis. In conjunction with the BrightTag ONE platform, the new offering provides a privacy toolkit that enables brands to:

CHICAGO, IL, Nov 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — BrightTag, a technology platform provider for the digital marketing industry, today announced the general availability of BrightTag ONE-Click Privacy, a new feature for brand marketers and website owners using the BrightTag ONE(TM) server-direct integration platform for data collection and distribution

Yesterday, the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Tracking Protection Working Group released the first public working drafts of a proposed “Do Not Track” (DNT) standard. According to the W3C’s press release, the group seeks to find the appropriate balance to “address both the privacy concerns of users and regulators, and the business models of the […]

Being on Facebook always had its risks. You register, sign in and built yourself a pretty neat profile, but if you forget or are oblivious to making some adjustments to your privacy settings, you can be pretty sure that everybody might have access to your personal information and whatever you post on the site (ranging from pictures […]

FPF co-chair Chris Wolf blogged yesterday about the recent industry Report on privacy rules as a potential impediment to trade, the APEC agreement on cross-border data flows and Obama Administration official Danny Weitzner’s warning against overly restrictive privacy rules and the benefits of enforceable industry codes of conduct. The blog post is available here.

It’s one of the drawbacks of being on Facebook: If you never make any adjustments to your privacy settings, you can assume everyone can see everything you post, or do, while using the giant social media network . Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and now claiming an astonishing 800 million users seems ready to give […]