Tweet Google has been working to counter the privacy backlash that followed the release of Buzz. Privacy watchdog EPIC is complaining to federal regulators that Google has gone too far. The U.S. Department of Justice is creating an IP Task Force to ramp up IP enforcement efforts. Advertisers are increasingly cautious about taking out advertisements aimed …
Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb 08
Court Sanctions “Careless and Indifferent” e-Discovery Efforts
Tweet If you’re a litigator or a client in the middle of discovery — particularly in a federal case in the Southern District of New York – you’ll want to read Judge Shira Scheindlin’s recent decision in Pension Comm. of the Univ. of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of Am. Secs., 2010 WL 184312 (S.D.N.Y., Jan 15, 2010). The 34-page opinion provides a …
Feb 04
More Ideas on How to Rate Web Site Privacy
Tweet Last week we wrote of an interesting proposal by major advertisers to append a stylized “i” to online ads that rely on consumer online behavior data. Now the Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox Web browser, is designing a standard set of colored icons to reveal how data-protective — or how intrusive — Web sites are. Mozilla’s hope …
Recent Comments