Category Archives: privacyscore

A Win-Win-Win: Privacyscores take hold

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Jim Brock

Since we launched Privacyscore.com earlier this year, we have had the chance to interact with scores of web and app publishers about one simple question: How can they improve their own Privacyscores? Through these conversations, we’ve seen many companies modify … Continue reading →

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It’s an Honor (in two ways)

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Jim Brock

The Online Trust Alliance today announced their 2012 Honor Roll, a unique and important tradition that highlights the online services that have adopted best practices in online security and privacy. At PrivacyChoice we’re celebrating this year’s announcement for two reasons. First, … 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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Three lessons from launching Privacyscore for Facebook

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Jim Brock

1. People don’t understand the different privacy zones of Facebook. When it comes to privacy, the Facebook app universe is a very different place from the areas Facebook completely controls (like the timeline and newsfeed). Facebook-controlled areas have relatively little … Continue reading →

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Privacyscores for the other Web (Facebook)

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jim Brock

Deeper and more meaningful coverage of the Facebook universe has been by far the top user request since we launched Privacyscore. Today, we’re delivering our own Facebook app, Privacyscore for Facebook, with scores for hundreds of top Facebook apps, and … 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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How to improve your Privacyscore

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Jim Brock

This is the most common question we get from web publishers. As explained in our FAQ, here’s how you can achieve a top Privacyscore of 100: Your own published privacy policy should clearly explain how you handle personally identifiable data … Continue reading →

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The privacyscore launch: what we’ve learned so far and the road ahead

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Jim Brock

We launched privacyscore.com on Monday. The amount of positive press attention was gratifying (New York Times, Wired.com, ZDNet, Huffington Post, Time.com, The Telegraph, Daily Mail and others ), as was the number of visits and downloads. Here’s what we learned and … Continue reading →

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Making privacy measurable (and easier) with privacyscores

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Jim Brock

Today we launched our most important and ambitious project: privacyscore.com. In it we are applying analytic methods to measure privacy risk across more than a thousand websites. We’re doing it to help solve a big problem for web users: how … Continue reading →

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