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Google Chrome will support Do Not Track, as advertisers back the Web privacy drive
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Google and the Digital Advertising Alliance have all thrown their weight behind the drive to bring a Do Not Track feature to popular browsers, in a bid to improve users’ privacy. As the Wall Street Journal reports, major advertising companies and others who use tracking data have agreed to honour...
Protect Our Data! A Digital Consumer Bill of Rights
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Online consumers need a legal framework that imposes security responsibilities on the host companies and ensures compensation for the resulting harm if consumers' data is lost....
Obama unveils Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
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President promises privacy legislation and says Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are committed to working with Do Not Track technology in browsers. [Read more]...
Anti-SOPA, PIPA lawmakers want Internet Bill of Rights
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Sen Ron Wyden and Rep. Darrell Issa said today that they want a Bill of Rights to protect Web users against censorship and those that would limit their online freedoms. [Read more]...
White House announces new privacy "Bill of Rights," Do Not Track agreement
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Saying "American consumers can't wait any longer" for better privacy rules, President Obama took the wraps off his administration's framework for new privacy regulations. As part of its big reveal, the White House also announced the first product of that framework: the completion of an industry agreement on "Do...
White House gets behind online 'bill of rights,' companies to adopt 'do not track'
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President Obama is throwing his weight behind a consumer bill of rights that includes protections against online companies in particular, and aims to safeguard customer privacy. While the plan doesn't come prepackaged with a new set of laws for companies to abide by, the Commerce Department is working to...
US lawmakers create website to crowd-source a 'digital bill of rights'
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Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) have started drafting a crowd-sourced digital bill of rights in hopes of preventing piecemeal laws like SOPA and CISPA from over-regulating the internet. The two have created a website called keeptheweb#open, where everyone is encouraged to contribute. In its current...
Pinterest Updates Terms Of Service... And People Are Still Overreacting
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I have to admit that I'm still at a loss over people freaking out over Pinterest. It's pretty much a non-issue, but it refuses to go away. I think I've finally figured out what's going on, however. Some copyright extremists are using Pinterest to try to whip people into a...
SOPA opponents unveil "Digital Bill of Rights"
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SOPA Analysis: "Cybersecurity" bill endangers privacy rights Slow learner? MPAA chief hints at talks to revive SOPA White House IP czar: anti-piracy laws should not block free speech The "Digital Bill of Rights" debuted at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Monday. The document draft comes...
Will the human rights court throw Britain a lifeline on prisoner votes? | Joshua Rozenberg
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If Strasbourg upholds its previous judgments, Cameron shouldn't expect the bill of rights commission to come to his rescueWill the European court of human rights throw Britain a lifeline tomorrow? The court's grand chamber will decide whether laws that prevent a murderer from voting amount to a breach of his...
IaaS funding resurfaces as SingleHop raises $27.5M
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In a cloud computing market dominated by large, well-known companies such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, it’s difficult to find much upside investing in the competition. However, Battery Ventures has done just that, leading a $27.5 million round in SingleHop, a Chicago-based infrastructure-as-a-service provider. The challenges in IaaS are...
EFF labels Apple products “beautiful crystal prisons”, calls for a mobile bill of rights
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Apple’s control over its iOS and Mac OS ecosystems has repeatedly called into question in times past but a new report from privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put the spotlight on the company yet again, calling for the company to relax its right grip on its products...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others sign up to Obama's new 'Privacy Bill of Rights,' will respect do-not-track instructions
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US President Barack Obama has today unveiled a new framework for online privacy intended to ameliorate persistent concerns about the way web companies use their customers' personal data. This blueprint has been given the highfalutin title of a Privacy Bill of Rights and one of its first achievements has...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and others sign up to Obama's new 'Privacy Bill of Rights,' will respect do-not-track instructions
Web privacy fears spur US plans
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The White House unveils a "bill of rights" for web users, calling for stronger privacy protections amid fears that online browsing habits are not secure....
Strategies for Creating Your Next Social Media RFP
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If your enterprise is shopping around for your internal social media provider, chances are that you have thought about putting together your own request for proposals (RFP). A number of organizations have put together templates and suggestions over the years, and the latest one comes from Sprinklr in this...
Do we need a mobile-computing bill of rights?
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The EFF calls Apple's mobile devices "beautiful crystal prisons" because they have a wide range of restrictions. Its call is to let people tinker. [Read more]...
EU Commissioner: US Should Catch Up with Europe on Data Privacy
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While the Obama Administration has proposed a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, it has yet to propose the actual text. Yet to be determined, among various other matters, are who would be in charge of regulation and how much regulation would take place. In a teleconference yesterday between members of...
Mozilla: Welcome Google and Obama, We Invented ‘Do Not Track’ A Year Ago
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Mozilla took a moment this morning to remind everyone that it invented Do Not Track in February 2011, was the first to implement it with Firefox, and 18% of mobile and 7% of desktop Firefox users currently have it activated. Now the President and competitor Google Chrome are joining the bandwagon, but Firefox offered...
Photographers Drag Amazon Into Pinterest Copyfight
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will accept responsibility for copyright complaints related to popular image-sharing site Pinterest, a photographers’ lobby boasted this weekend. “Amazon has now accepted that they will process DMCA notices concerning infringements by Pinterest members,” said a site called Artists’ Bill of Rights, citing a recent email exchange...
Tim Wu on why 'free speech for computers' is dangerous
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We're a long ways from humanoid computers, but companies like Google have argued that their web tools deserve the same First Amendment protection as human speakers. Columbia Law professor Tim Wu argues that when Google defends its automated search rankings as a form of protected speech, it's creating a...
Musician Jonathan Coulton: I Value The Internet A Lot More Than The Record Industry
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We've written plenty about Jonathan Coulton over the years, including two recent stories. The first was his revelation that he grossed about half a million dollars last year -- even with his music being offered under a Creative Commons license such that you could share it. He made a lot...
White House Unveils Plans For Consumer Privacy Bill Of Rights
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The Obama administration has announced that it will work with Congress on a new series of consumer protections dubbed a “Privacy Bill of Rights” that will detail how Internet companies can handle and use consumers’ personal data. According to the statement from The White House, consumers should have a right...
Despite Policy Changes, Pinterest Still Doesn't Comply With DMCA
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Despite changes over the weekend to is usage policies, Pinterest may still not be in compliance with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, according to copyright attorney and blogger Connie Mableson. Pinterest said Amazon will be handling DMCA notices since Pinterest is hosted by the giant retailer. But Pinterest has still...
RealNetworks reaches agreement over its e-commerce practices, including pre-checked boxes
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RealNetworks had come under fire from the Washington State Attorney General’s office for some of its e-commerce practices in the past. Two years after those complaints were made, the two sides have reached an agreement. The response from the company admits no “guilt”, but it was clear that consumers were...
Obama steps up fight for online consumer protection with ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’
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The Obama administration has unveiled a new framework for protecting Americans’ data on the Internet, including a commitment to technology that allows consumers to opt out of tracking, the government announced today. “American consumers can’t wait any longer for clear rules of the road that ensure their personal information...
Web Firms to Adopt "No Track" Button
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A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers — a move that the industry had been resisting for more than a year. The reversal is being announced as part of the White House’s call for Congress...
The Best SLA Ever
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You no doubt are somewhat cynical about service level agreements (SLAs), those little-reviewed documents that promise the level of service from your hosting provider. Little-read that is, until something goes awry. Enter SingleHop, a Chicago-based provider that is trying to make a name for itself by actually delivering a solid...
JOBS Act, say hello to the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Association
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Well, that was fast. On the same day that President Obama signed the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) into law, a collection of 13 self-described “equity and debt crowdfunding platforms and industry experts” have banded together to form a trade group, looking to bring stability and trust to...
Do we need a smartphone bill of rights for iOS?
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The EFF called Apple devices “beautiful crystal prisons” because they have a wide range of restrictions. EFF’s call was to let people tinker....
Mobile User Privacy Bill of Rights lays down guidelines for app developers
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There's certainly been no shortage of mobile privacy controversies of late, with fierce debate over the level of access developers should have to your personal data such as contacts or photos. It's often difficult to know where the line between functionality and privacy should be drawn, and with that...
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