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June 7, 2017 by Paul Dughi
With ad-tech being so intrusive these days in tracking our movements, you had to wonder when people would say “enough …
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Category: Ad Block, Consumer, Digital, Google, Privacy, Video
| Tags: AdTech, Apple, autoplay, chrome, Google, Privacy, safari, technology, tracking, Video
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May 11, 2017 by Paul Dughi
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Turn over its use of Supercookies (also called Zombie Cookies). The …
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Category: Ad Block, Advertising, Business, Consumer, Ethics, Interesting, Legal, Privacy
| Tags: Advertising, fine, FTC, opt-in, opt-out, Privacy, Supercookies, tracking, Turn, Verizon, Zombie Cookies
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March 15, 2017 by Paul Dughi
Settlement on hold as judge trashes agreement We’ve been watching the case of Matera V. Google for some time now. …
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Category: Advertising, Digital, Google, Legal, Privacy
| Tags: ad targeting, email, Gmail, Google, judge lucy koh, Lawsuit, Privacy
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March 13, 2017 by Paul Dughi
Al Gore jokes aside, the man credited with creating the WWW in web addresses says we’ve got some big problems …
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Category: Digital, Ethics, News
| Tags: Advertising, fake news, internet, inventor, News, online advertising, political advertising, Privacy, Tim Berners-Lee
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February 7, 2017 by Paul Dughi
Consumers have bought more than 11 million internet-connected Vizio televisions since 2010. But according to a complaint filed by the …
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Category: Advertising, Consumer, Digital, Privacy
| Tags: Advertising, internet, marketing, permission, Privacy, Smart TV, tracking, vizio
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January 30, 2017 by Paul Dughi
Read the actual order letters after the jump. For the first time, Twitter is able to speak openly about national security …
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Category: Law, Legal, Privacy, Social, Twitter
| Tags: First Amendment, gag order, Government, Lawsuit, national security, Privacy, Twitter, Twitter vs Lynch
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January 24, 2017 by Paul Dughi
I knew my “Smart TV” was a little different when I got my first one and discovered that just like …
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Category: Advertising, Consumer, Digital, Ethics, Privacy, Television
| Tags: data collection, federal trade commission, FTC, jessica rich, listening, Privacy, samsung, Smart TV, third-party
