Category Archives: Oversight

Developer Alert: California Attorney General sets up privacy enforcement unit

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Jim Brock

The top law enforcement official in the State of California has created a special enforcement unit focused on privacy, which emphasizes online and mobile data practices. If you develop or publish mobile apps, here’s what you need to know: 1. … Continue reading →

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Privacyscore update: New oversight provider

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Jim Brock

The Privacyscore algorithm will evolve and change along with the universe of privacy practices and methods that it catalogs. Privacyscore updates like this let you know about significant changes that affect the scores for the sites you use or operate. … Continue reading →

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So this is what a privacy audit looks like

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Jim Brock

2011 may be remembered as the year of the Big Privacy Audit, with the Federal Trade Commission using consent decree powers to commit both Facebook and Google to decades of regular third-party oversight and reporting on privacy. You may not … Continue reading →

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Tracker List 2.0

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Jim Brock

The PrivacyChoice Tracker List has been expanded and enhanced. My goal is to make it the definitive source of privacy information about the tracking company ecosystem, serving web users, websites, advertisers, agencies and others concerned with online tracking and privacy. … Continue reading →

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What we know (and what we don’t)

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Jim Brock

The last few months have been eventful for those following ad targeting and consumer privacy. Here’s my list of things that we have now learned (and some we haven’t) about the emerging “self-regulatory” framework. Read full article at adotas

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Evercookie: Why oversight matters

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Jim Brock

Opt-out and blocking technologies are important to allow consumers to express their privacy preferences and have assurance that they are honored. But as mentioned in earlier posts, the technology to track users will probably always outpace the technologies available for consumers to … Continue reading →

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