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Sears settles FTC charges regarding tracking software: Sears failed to disclose adequately that software collected consumers’ sensitive personal information

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 9 2009

The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is settling with Sears Holdings Management Corporation (owned by Sears, Roebuck and Company and Kmart Management Corporation) for Sears' alleged failure to adequately disclose the scope of its downloadable tracking software application

Survey: two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by web sites and advertisers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2009

A recent survey conducted by professors at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley revealed that two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by web sites and advertisers

Malware threatens consumer privacy, as well as media companies and their reputations

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 9 2009

Malware is being deployed at alarming rates through unknowing online content providers and media and advertising companies

Iconix Brand Group settles charges its apparel web sites violated COPPA

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 27 2009

Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (“Iconix”) has agreed to pay a $250,000 civil penalty to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) charges that Iconix violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and the FTC’s implementing rules and regulations, as well as the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”) by knowingly collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from children without first obtaining their parents’ permission, despite a posted privacy notice to the contrary

Social networking web sites inadvertently sent personal info to advertisers

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 27 2010

A recent Wall Street Journal news report describes how some of the major social networking web sites, including Digg, Facebook and MySpace, have been sending certain personal information to advertisers when a user clicks an advertisement on the sites

Court finds Youtube not liable to Viacom for copyright infringement because Youtube complied with requirements of federal safe harbors

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 29 2010

After three years of contentious litigation, the federal court hearing the dispute between Viacom and YouTube has dismissed almost all of Viacom's $1 billion of claims

Two potential class actions filed against Facebook

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 10 2010

In the last week of May, two potential class actions were filed against Facebook in California federal district court

Privacy concerns over proposed U.S. web-tracking plan

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

Many believe that were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president

Twitter settlement of FTC charges: lessons all companies should learn

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2010

In May 2009 hackers were able to access certain administrative controls of the popular social networking site Twitter using password-guessing software and other techniques

Facebook apps transmit unauthorized links to personal data

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2010

A recent Wall Street Journal investigative report describes how certain Facebook apps (third party applications running on the Facebook platform) send personal information to advertisers and third party tracking companies in violation of the Facebook Privacy Policy and the Facebook agreements binding the app companies

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