FTC’s proposed a framework to protect the privacy of consumers. Part of this framework is a “Do Not Track” option that has raised a lot…
Past weekend, WSJ published a story titled Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets on online tracking and advertising (behavioral targeting). It appears to me that…
Last week I wrote about a browser plug-in that will allow people to opt-out of the Google Analytics cookie. The release of this plug-in seems…
During 2007-2008 I wrote a lot about online privacy on this blog. Most of the online privacy discussion at that time revolved around online targeting…
Late last week Google Analytics announced a browser plug-in that will allow users to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking. Here is an offical statement from…
Online privacy is a hot button these days. Privacy advocates and lawmakers are putting a lot of pressure on several large internet companies such as…
Online tracking and advertising based on users’ online behavior have got a lot of heat and scrutiny from privacy advocates and lawmakers. As a result…
A recent report titled Behavioral Targeting Attitudes:The Privacy Issue by eMarketer, explored consumers attitude towards online tracking and behavioral targeting. There was a similar study…
Today a U.S. Senate committee summoned representatives of several internet companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and also NebuAd, and expressed its concerns about the user…
Last month Charter Communications, an internet service provider (ISP), announced that it will share it’s customers web browsing data with NebuAd, to show ads based…