Privacy

Facebook Changes Touch Privacy Nerve

October 3, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> Facebook has touched a nerve with a broad range of critics upset about the social network's latest batch of online sharing technology.</p> <p> Ten consumer and privacy groups have joined Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate new sharing mechanisms designed to accelerate the collection and dispersal of information about Facebook users' Internet activities.</p>

Facebook Tracking Prompts Calls for FTC Investigation

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> Facebook’s use of software that enables it to track users’ online activity after they log off of the social-networking site came under scrutiny in Washington this week, with lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups demanding a federal investigation.</p>

ACLU Joins Call for FTC Facebook Probe

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Facebook Changes Mark Big Privacy Shift

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Facebook Tracking Probe Sought by Washington Privacy Group

September 29, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="clearfix" id="story-body"> <p class="indent"> A privacy-rights group said it will ask the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to examine Facebook Inc.’s tracking of Internet users after they log off the world’s most popular social-networking service.</p>

Facebook Forms a PAC

September 26, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <strong>In forming a political action committee, Facebook is joining other social media companies in efforts to integrate with the political landscape.</strong><br /> <br /> Facebook wants more friends. And it's willing to pay for them.<br /> <br />

State Stem Cell Initiative Transforms Local Research

September 26, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Back from tracking Google’s Eric Schmidt

September 23, 2011  ·  John M. Simpson

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Agents and Brokers Lead Insurance Campaign Donors, Turn to GOP

September 23, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Driven by opposition to the health reform law and Democrats who supported it groups representing agents and brokers have taken a leading role among political donors from the insurance sector.<br /> <br />

Rude Awakening

September 22, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> K Street is buzzing over the shock and awe tactics Consumer Watchdog used this morning when its members showed up at Google's Director of Public Policy Pablo Chavez's house at 8:30 a.m.<br /> <br /> The California-based group arrived at Chavez's home in an ice cream truck - part of another stunt the group did giving out "free" ice cream and info on Google's online and mobile tracking.<br /> <br /> How did they find Chavez's digs? Simpson said, it was simple. "We Googled him and got all our info on how to go to his house on the Internet.<br />

Does Google Have Data Monopoly?

September 22, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <strong>Mimes who pretended to gather strangers’ personal information and free ice cream were part of a consumer group's message Wednesday that Google has too much information about its users.</strong></p> <p>  </p>

Consumer Watchdog’s “Google Track Team” Visits The Capitol

September 21, 2011  ·  Consumer Watchdog

Pictures covering Consumer Watchdog Google Track Team in town to drawing attention to Google creepy tracking and anti-trust behavior