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Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Italy, USA
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  • March 31 2010

A court in Italy has convicted three Google executives of charges that they violated Italian law by allowing a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied to be posted online

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2010

The FTC announced that it has launched a review of, and is inviting public comment on, its rules implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA

Legislative outlook

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

On May 20, 2010, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John (“Jay”) Rockefeller, IV, D-W.Va., introduced S. 3386, the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Germany, USA
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  • May 24 2010

Authorities in both the United States and Germany are poised to begin inquiries into Google's collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, which were deployed to take street-level photos and collect basic Wi-Fi information, such as the SSIDs and MAC addresses of WiFi routers

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2010

The FTC has decided not to challenge Google's acquisition of mobile advertising network company Admob, determining that the acquisition was unlikely to harm competition in the marketplace

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2010

Younger users of social networking sites, when compared to older users of those same sites, are more likely to try to limit how much information about them is made available publicly, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 7 2010

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr., D-Mich., recently sent letters to Facebook, Inc. and Google, Inc. in connection with recent reports of privacy-related issues involving the two companies

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 2 2010

On July 29, 2010, the Information Commissioner's Office of Great Britain announced that its privacy investigation of Google's StreetView revealed no wrongdoing by the company

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2010

In response to a discussion draft of a new privacy bill drafted by Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Ranking Member Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., of the House Communications Subcommittee, ten privacy and consumer groups called for stronger measures to protect consumer privacy both online and off

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 5 2010

In a March 25, 2010 letter, a bi-partisan group of Members of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee urged the FTC to investigate complaints that Google inappropriately used private user information in its launch of the new Buzz service