Posts Tagged ‘Marc Rotenberg

The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing today about issues surrounding the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and if it should be updated to address online data collection practices, social networks, and the mobile web. "It is clear that the single biggest change impacting the privacy of children since the adoption of COPPA has [...]

The Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Internet Center at Elon University teamed up to survey 895 experts about the future of the Internet and its affect on human intelligence. "Three out of four experts said our use of the Internet enhances and augments human intelligence, and two-thirds said use of the Internet [...]

Less than a week after Google introduced a new social networking service, Google Buzz, the company is working feverishly to address user unease about the privacy of the product. Google Buzz lets users share posts and notes with people they are connected to or “follow,” a model similar to Twitter and Facebook. But unlike those [...]

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with nine other privacy and consumer organizations, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charging that Facebook’s recent changes to user privacy settings violate federal consumer protection law. The EPIC complaint wants the FTC to open an investigation into the changes made by Facebook to [...]

Earlier this week, a poll created using a third-party app on Facebook asked “Should Obama be killed?” The episode quickly garnered national attention, and the Secret Service was called in to identify who created it and determine if there was a credible threat against the President. As many of our commenters speculated, fortunately, there was [...]


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