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[…] Mr. Strickling emphasized his goal of achieving broad participation from industry representatives, civil society, and academics in an effort to establish quality, credibility, and acceptance of the code of conduct established during the multistakeholder process. With reference to facilitating consensus, Mr. Stickling cited the use of a professional facilitator to help “set a plan” […]

[…] consent .” Finally, the code provides considerable ‘practical advice’ about various anonymisation techniques. The code, which does not in itself have the force of law, endeavors to promote the uses of anonymisation and establishes the responsibilities and good practices that “any data controller who is involved in the production or publication of anonymised information” […]

[…] support for creating a national standard for security breach notification, which would replace the state breach notification laws that are currently enacted in 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.  The Administration noted that the “patchwork of State laws creates significant burdens for companies without much countervailing benefit for consumers.”

PrivacyChoice CEO and FPF Advisory Board member Jim Brock announced a new privacy resource center for app developers at today’s Online Trust Alliance 2011 Forum. Features include PrivacyChoice’s Policymaker tool, sample templates, code resources, and other guidance. Read more about the center here.

[…] law ever to limit the use of personal information and the first ever to require erasure of outdated negative information. Thereafter policymakers in the U.S. developed the Code of Information Practice, complementing and drawing from the codes being developed in Scandinavia and Germany. A federal law in the U.S. in 1974 protected student information […]

[…] impose on third parties with whom they contract with either to perform utility functions or to enable customer monitoring of energy usage information.  See Cal. Pub. Util. Code § 8380.  Based on those provisions, the PUC concluded that it had authority to enact rules relating to third parties that contract with utilities. The PUC […]

[…] Makers” event live, click here: http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/Videos/Pages/Privacy.aspx  This event will be available for viewing on September 15 from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. -or – Dial 800-884-7907, access code: 379342 to listen to the conversation. For those who are able to attend, please RSVP to [email protected] today to reserve your spot.   “Privacy Papers for […]

A  friend just flagged to us the following activity on the Mozilla message boards indicating the latest updates to the browser code that is the base for the Firefox browser will dramatically change the handling of third party cookies.  Comments by Dan Wittes, leader of the cookie module at Mozilla,  explain that the current default ‘accept […]

[…] most robust business needs of tracking cookies. As such, companies such as Google and AOL have set expiration dates for their tracking cookies of 2 years. (http:// code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html) But here is the catch. Most ad networks will reset the date of previously placed tracking cookies each time they interact with a user. This effectively […]

[…] participating in this or any other network. (Hint – on your browser toolbar, choose View, then Page Source, and scrool thorough looking for the name of the code referring to the ad network. Or look at the bottom edge of your browser window when you visit a new web page and watch the locations […]