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30 Jul 2012, 7:53 am by Justin Brookman
8/1/2012 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy In order to support NTIA’s multistakeholder convening around mobile privacy, CDT is setting up an online forum for people to present and discuss ideas related to that effort. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 8:31 am by Justin Brookman
8/5/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Two weeks ago, CDT President Leslie Harris testified before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection on the two privacy bills currently being debated in Washington:  the… [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 9:44 am by Justin Brookman
4/8/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Last week, CDT President Leslie Harris participated in a panel on kids' privacy at Yale Law School's symposium "From Mad Men to Mad Bots: Advertising in the Digital Age. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 3:00 pm by Justin Brookman
4/28/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy Baseline Privacy Legislation Yesterday, CDT released its top-level analysis of the "Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011," (S. 799) introduced in the Senate by Sens. [read post]
1 Dec 2010, 2:06 pm by Justin Brookman
12/1/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy After months of anticipation, the Federal Trade Commission announced earlier today its staff report on privacy. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 11:32 am by Justin Brookman
12/10/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Suddenly, it seems that history sniffing — a long known web exploit — is finally getting the attention it deserves. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 1:12 pm by Justin Brookman
2/28/2012 Author:  Justin Brookman Best Practices: Online Subscription Upselling Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Today, CDT is releasing its final best practices guidance for online subscription… [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 8:19 am by Justin Brookman
8/4/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Last night, Pandora announced on their blog that they are taking all their users through a new interface to choose privacy settings for sharing information on its popular music listening site. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 12:18 pm by Justin Brookman
2/24/2012 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy Baseline Privacy Law Yesterday afternoon, the White House issued its long-awaited “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” – a 46-page report arguing the need for stronger privacy rules for both consumers and… [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 11:54 am by Justin Brookman
11/29/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman CDT Complaint to FTC Against Medical Justice Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Earlier today, CDT filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and various state… [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 11:54 am by Justin Brookman
11/29/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman CDT Complaint to FTC Against Medical Justice Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Earlier today, CDT filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and various state… [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 2:48 pm by Justin Brookman
12/7/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2471, a proposed revision to the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the law that prohibits companies from disclosing information about your… [read post]
12 Nov 2010, 9:55 am by Justin Brookman
11/12/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy International More Issues in Consumer Privacy Last week, the European Commission issued an important report discussing how the European Union plans to update its Data Protection Directive. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 2:48 pm by Justin Brookman
12/7/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2471, a proposed revision to the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the law that prohibits companies from disclosing information about your… [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 2:15 pm by Justin Brookman
12/16/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy Baseline Privacy Legislation More Issues in Consumer Privacy Two weeks after the FTC released its privacy report, the Department of Commerce this morning released its own call for the United… [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 6:00 pm by Justin Brookman
10/19/2010 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal, in its continuing series of excellent articles about online privacy, released a controversial story about Facebook apps transmitting identification… [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 9:00 pm by Justin Brookman
6/12/2012 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy On Tuesday, CDT received some long hoped-for news from the Federal Trade Commission:  The FTC had announced an $800,000 settlement with the online data broker Spokeo over Fair Credit Reporting Act… [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 11:35 am by Justin Brookman
2/2/2012 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy International More Issues in Consumer Privacy After weeks of suspense and rumors, last Wednesday the European Commission finally introduced long-awaited legislation to update the 1995 Data… [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 8:03 am by Justin Brookman
10/4/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy As privacy has become an increasingly important issue to people around the world, we have seen scores of countries pass data protection laws designed to give consumers control over the collection and… [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 1:55 pm by Justin Brookman
8/5/2011 Author:  Justin Brookman Consumer Privacy More Issues in Consumer Privacy We’ve blogged before about the practice of browser history sniffing — web developers using a bug in certain browsers to see what other sites a user had been to. [read post]