Liz Gannes in Social on March 26 at 2:43 pm PT
In order to avoid crossing the FTC and its new privacy framework, social media companies should make sure they honor privacy commitments, said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 13, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
As CIQ prepares to answer the questions put to it by U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, it’s hoping to set the record straight with a definitive report on the functionality of its software.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 13, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Merchants send Americans 20 billion catalogs a year, and more than 1,100 brands offer to share their mailing lists.
That amounts to a lot of name sharing, which can turn into a headache for people who want to get off lists.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 26, 2011 at 4:30 am PT
Remember when people freaked out about Facebook letting advertisers tell people what you were doing on the Web? Old news! Now it’s a yawn.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 24, 2011 at 3:04 pm PT
Like Mozilla, Google has heeded the call of U.S. regulators to give Web users an easy way to stop companies from tracking their online activities for targeting advertising.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2010 at 11:46 am PT
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event.
The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook.
The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."
John Paczkowski in Social on July 28, 2010 at 10:40 am PT
Facebook users may have control over how their information is shared, but they don’t always get to decide where and in what form that information is shared unless they proactively choose to. Case in point: The torrent of account details for more than 100 million Facebook users that surfaced today.
Peter Kafka in Media on June 21, 2010 at 6:30 pm PT
If you’re willing to do the work, you can opt out of Apple’s ad trackers. But Apple is going to keep track of your iPhone’s location data, no matter what you want.
