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A Scenic Tour of the Online World

Behavioral advertising is growing, but privacy issues still concern consumers.

Personal data lockers may be a step in the right direction to balance privacy and the personalization advantages that shared data provide.

Who owns the data about your online activities? The answer impacts not just social networks and media options like Nook vs. Kindle, but the openness of the web.

The good guys seem to have the upper hand on spammers for the moment, but the spammers aren’t going without a fight.

The New York Times reports that the FTC is launching a new recommendation to create a “privacy cookie” similar to the cookies many retail and other websites use to track visitor preferences and behavior, but with a security profile in a universally readable format informing advertising networks about a user’s privacy preferences. The Digital Advertising [...]

Nice summary and commentary from EFF on Facebook’s move toward better privacy controls for their users. That’s good news for Facebook fans and folks with wee ones on Facebook who are worried about their safety. It will be interesting to see how this increased attention on personal privacy will mesh with Facebook’s increasing popularity and [...]

Just when things quiet down on the privacy/security front, something else comes along. It seems that consumers are getting hip to the fact that they’re being watches, sometimes even after they’ve taken steps to keep from being watched. The New York Times is reporting that a number of lawsuits have been filed by consumers who [...]

In case it’s a new term to you, net neutrality is the idea that there should not be preferential treatment given to how information is transmitted across the Internet. That seems like a pretty simple concept, but keep in mind that even though the Web is public, various components of it are privately owned. And [...]

Haven’t we been through this before? Didn’t we all start out on AOL or Compuserve and then graduate to hang out with the cool kids (the early adopters) who out on wild, wild World Wide Web? Facebook and a number of other social networks and social media tools remind me of that era, where worlds [...]

This would be funnier if it weren’t so scary. (But it’s still pretty funny.) Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology I’m fascinated with privacy issues, both online and off. We share things now that our parents wouldn’t have dreamed of sharing in the past. (Don’t you have an older relative who still  [...]

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