Tag Archive: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dec 08

Do Privacy Settings Work?

Tweet Facebook reportedly receives over 100 requests a week from law enforcement officers seeking information about its users. Amazon once received a request from a U.S. Attorney for purchasing histories for 24,000 of its users. Google battled a Department of Justice request for user search queries. Verizon gets thousands of these requests. And a 17-page Yahoo document outlining company surveillance capabilities recently leaked to the Net.  Against this …

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Sep 02

Privacy Groups Propose Behavioral Advertising Guidelines

Tweet Ten privacy advocacy groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Digital Democracy, have released a series of guidelines for American legislators considering regulating behavioral advertising, and calling for greater transparency and giving Web users greater control over how the data is used.  A copy of the guidelines are available here.