Brits express privacy concerns with smart meters
http://web.archive.org/web/20091108150053/http://www.smartmeters.com:80/the-news/656-brits-express-privacy-concerns-with-smart-meters.html Update from the UK:The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) expressed privacy concerns within its impact assessment, stating that there “is theoretically scope…for using the smart metering communications infrastructure to enable a variety of other services, such as monitoring of vulnerable householders by health authorities or social services.” “Information from smart meters could […]
A deeper dive into behavioral advertising in Europe
As mentioned in a previous blog post, we had the pleasure of speaking with nugg.ad CEO Stephan Noller last week. Nugg.ad is the German company that has just been awarded the EuroPrise Privacy Seal. nugg.ad’s new behavioral targeting system, Predictive Targeting Networking (PTN) 2.0, received the seal favored by many EU regulators after a vetting […]
Live Blogging From GridWeek
Round Two: Updates today will be from our smart grid privacy fellow Matt Gruenberg: Session on end user perspectives: do utilities truly understand their customers? Ohio Consumers Counsel J.M. Ostrander only way demand response can work is if consumer understand it Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on forgetting in a digital age http://bit.ly/NfALa Are grid folks thinking about […]
Web Analysis, Behavioral Targeting and Advertising: Individual Visitors Tracking v/s Aggregate Data
http://webanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/08/individual-visitors-tracking-vs.html In our comments on the federal government’s request for input on the use of cookies, we made the point that for the purpose of Web site analytics use of data in the aggregate was quite sufficient. This discussion and debate between analytics industry experts from Google and Comscore provides some insight on the issues […]
Facebook Canadian Privacy News
Some thoughts on the Report of Findings by the Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada into the complaint filed by CIPPIC against Facebook. Overall this is a very well informed and thoughtful decision. The majority of the issues raised by CIPPIC (Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic) are either denied or found to have […]
Yahoo launches a mobile behavioral opt-out
Kudos to Yahoo for being among the first to offer a mobile behavioral advertising opt-out. Check out http://www.ypolicyblog.com/ The FTC was clear in its behavioral advertising guidance that consumers should be entitled to opt-out of behavioral ads, regardless of the platform involved. It is great to see Yahoo take the lead here on behalf of […]
Regulating Online Ads – today on the Hill
If you are around DC today, join us for what I hope will be an exciting panel!Some advance thoughts — I suspect that I am personally far less allergic to legislation than some of my colleagues on today’s PFF Regulating Online Advertising Panel. I do think that effective legislation here will be very difficult, but […]
A cookie is a cookie and an IP address is an IP address
MediaPost Publications What Do BT And Copyright Infringement Have In Common? 07/08/2009. Cookies, not IP addresses as claimed in the above article, are today used for behavioral tracking. IP addresses are used by ad networks for geo-targeting, for anti-fraud and auditing, and in some cases for presuming the type of company the user is coming […]
"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, […]
Can having the wrong friends online affect your credit rating?
I understand the idea behind marketers identifying users who have a lot of friends or are very active online and considering them “influencers”. I “get” the marketing value of enhancing a users profile with information from a range of their online public activity. Providing transparency to users and control over this type of data collection […]