Category Archives: Do Not Track

Do Not Track just got a lot easier

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Jim Brock

It’s not easy to be a content publisher these days: distribution and syndication models have changed forever, audiences spend more and more time on Facebook instead of your site, and finding and optimizing ad revenue is increasingly complex. On top … Continue reading →

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13 Takeaways from the Federal Trade Commission’s final privacy report

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Jim Brock

After two years of study, the Federal Trade Commission has issued their final report, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change. Here are the takeaways that I found most significant (particularly #13!): Companies can establish a “safe harbor” … Continue reading →

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Facebook on P3P: “any value will usually suffice”

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Jim Brock

Privacy historians, if you were wondering about the continuing influence of P3P, check out how Facebook advises developers to handle it in the developers’ guide to building apps: If you’re a developer, please don’t follow this advice, because it could get … Continue reading →

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Geo-IP location targeting:
When is consent required?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Jim Brock

In AdExchanger, the CEO of location-data company, PlaceIQ, explains how IP addresses are used to determine a user’s location, and how this practice is becoming increasingly precise: Starting at the most granular, or hyper‑local, is a smartphone, your typical Android or … Continue reading →

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Do Not Track: Advice for early adopters

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Jim Brock

While the W3C working group continues to hammer out specifications for the Do Not Track header, it’s good to see a few tracking companies already moving ahead with their own implementations. Here are two key points for companies adopting the … Continue reading →

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Can Do-Not-Track users be convinced to allow anonymous, accountable tracking?

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Jim Brock

From a survey on privacychoice.org of users with Do Not Track already enabled in their browser.

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Confirming Do Not Track Status: The Chitika Example

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Jim Brock

The PrivacyChoice Tracker List collects the privacy qualifications and practices of nearly 500 targeting companies, including tracking domains, methods and opt-out processes. This data flows through nearly all of the services we offer web and mobile users (such as TrackerBlock and … Continue reading →

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Meaningful Mobile Choice Begins with the Privacy Policy

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Jim Brock

PrivacyChoice Policymaker is featured today in the IAB Blog, with my pitch for ad companies to encourage app developers to focus on better privacy disclosure for users, particularly when it comes to third party ad tracking. Privacy advocates and regulators … Continue reading →

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Why Not Track? Results from an informal survey

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Jim Brock

Recently Krux Digital (a PrivacyChoice partner) and Mozilla published interesting statistics on the adoption of Do Not Track preference in Firefox. They suggest that so far over six percent of Firefox users who have the Do Not Track option have … Continue reading →

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Will behavioral icons matter on mobile?

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Jim Brock

Last week Mozilla announced the availability of a Do-Not-Track setting in the mobile version of Firefox. Although not yet honored by more than a few companies, seeing this implementation reminds me of how the mobile paradigm may require a very … Continue reading →

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