Trackers inserted into email can detect when a person opens a message and where they are when they do so. And it’s not easy to thwart them. Source: Foiling Electronic Snoops in Email – The New York Times
Advertisers to get a glimpse of Apple Watch promise, challenge | Reuters. Here is a link directly to TapSense.
The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’ – NYTimes.com.
Recent Video | PBS NewsHour | PBS. It’s election day!
SunTrust Referred to CFPB over Online Ad Practices – American Banker Article. Yikes! I do love this comment left by a reader: I’m gonna form a self-regulating organization to load up the self-regulatory bodies with self-regulating suggestions to give them something to do with their days and leave people with actual jobs alone to do…
A great example of doing things that you can do, but really shouldn’t, is the old days of telemarketing. A multi-million dollar industry was essentially regulated out of existence because of harassing phone calls interrupting families having dinner. There was no law preventing those phone calls, but an industry out of control and not in…
Not Cool: And while not exactly matchmaking, Arizona State takes an interest in students’ social lives, too. Its Facebook app mines profiles to suggest friends. One classmate shares eight things in common with Ms. Allisone, who “likes” education, photography and tattoos. Researchers are even trying to figure out social ties based on anonymized data culled…
You can find a nice summary of the CNIL’s cookie directive guidance on the implementation in France here.
. . . the [Article 29 Working Party] reiterated its belief that the opt-out approach violated European privacy law, which requires consent before personal data can be used. A consumer’s failure to opt out of behavioral ads, the panel said in its statement, is not a form of implicit consent, which is the position…
Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite I’m thinking of developing an profile of my wife. I bet I could use it for good . . . or to at least stay out of trouble!
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