TV Ads Delivered via Google Fiber: Mad Men’s Dreams Come True at the Cost of Viewers’ Privacy?

March 26, 2015  TV Ads Delivered via Google Fiber: Mad Men’s Dreams Come True at the Cost of Viewers’ Privacy? By: Erin L. Bansal http://www.wired.com/2015/03/google-fiber-ads/ http://www.adweek.com/news/television/google-fiber-may-have-created-game-changer-real-measurement-tv-ad-views-163604  http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/google-plans-experiment-with-targeted-ads-for-television/ Google recently announced…

Consumer Privacy Bill and the role of FTC

March 26th, 2015 Consumer Privacy Bill and the role of FTC By: Jyotsana Sinha Panel 5 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/03/23/the-ftc-beefs-up-technology-investigations-with-new-office/ http://www.hldataprotection.com/2015/03/articles/consumer-privacy/insights-on-the-consumer-privacy-bill-of-rights-act-of-2015/ While the government is ready to take the next step by enacting…

RadioShack’s bankruptcy and Auctioning off Customer Data- A violation of Privacy Policy

March 26th, 2015 FTC AND CONSUMER PRIVACY RadioShack’s bankruptcy and Auctioning off Customer Data- A violation of Privacy Policy By: Vasundhara Apte http://www.computerworld.com/article/2901691/new-york-threatens-action-if-radioshack-sells-customer-data.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-24/radioshack-s-bankruptcy-could-give-your-customer-data-to-the-highest-bidder http://www.pcworld.com/article/2902472/about-25-us-states-oppose-sale-of-radioshacks-customer-data.html RadioShack is a leading national…

Marketing Drones now flying over Los Angeles Area for Cellphone Location Data

March 26th 2015 Marketing Drones now flying over Los Angeles Area for Cellphone Location Data By: Sofia Grafanaki Panel 5 http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/23/drones-over-head-in-las-valley-are-tracking-mobile-devices-locations/ http://www.popsci.com/marketing-drones-scanned-la-cellphone-location-data http://www.forbes.com/sites/frankbi/2015/02/23/drones-are-already-intercepting-cell-phone-signals-in-l-a/ A Singapore based marketing company proudly announced…

The Privacy of Regulators

March 12th, 2015 The Privacy of Regulators http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/us/politics/storing-emails-from-these-senators-will-be-easy-if-they-ever-send-one.html By Emily Naphtal Recently, the New York Times interviewed the “flip phone caucus”, a group of Senators that barely uses email. For…