3 posts and columns on user ID

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Privacy Study: Top U.S. Web Sites Share Visitor Personal Data

in News on October 11, 2011 at 3:41 pm PT

A study released Tuesday shows that 45 percent of the top 185 U.S. Web sites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside Web sites.

A “Do Not Call The FTC About Facebook Privacy” Registry? Great Idea, Tim.

in News on May 10, 2010 at 10:50 am PT

Perfect. Facebook has enlisted a former senior Bush administration regulator to defend its privacy practices in Washington. Tim Muris, who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 2001 to 2004 and created the popular U.S. Do Not Call Registry, is advising the company, whose privacy disclosures and fast and loose handling of user data are increasingly drawing scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

I Guess IP Addresses Are Personal, After All …

in News on July 15, 2008 at 2:15 pm PT

As Google, Viacom, and Viacom PR flack Jeremy Zweig will tell you, user IDs and Internet protocol addresses aren’t personally identifiable. So any public outrage over the logging database YouTube is handing over to Viacom under court order is really just the product of so much misinformation and paranoia.