No wonder 98% of all small businesses have no protection against hackers whatsoever. By contrast, the consumer awareness guide works better when the prospect knows they have a problem, knows they need to solve it, and are looking at you and your...
SEMPO’s letter states they understand “the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau is now looking closely at the issue. In addition, SEMPO has offered “valuable insight and background to the Consumer Protection Bureau, both on the topic of a search engine...
Sellers participating in Taobao’s Consumer Protection Agreement Taobao Marketplace – a consumer to consumer platform similar to craigslist/ebay auctions Tmall.com – a business to consumer online market place eTao – a shopping search engine
However, if the data your site collects is sensitive (e.g.health information), then explicit consent could be required (and other data protection laws might apply too). Cookies have been the focus of coverage of the Directive – the crumbly bad boys...
COPPA is the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which prohibits sites from knowingly disclosing children’s personally identifiable information. Last June, Consumer Reports magazine said they had unearthed “several disturbing...
Google yesterday moved forward with its planned changes to its privacy policies despite some objections from consumer groups, European regulators, and 36 U.S.attorney general concerned the changes don't conform to data protection rules.
We are aware of this issue and are continuing to make enquiries with Google to ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations," ICO said in a statement to V3.
As you will know, we had extensively pre-briefed data protection authorities across the EU prior to the launch of our notification to users on 24 January 2012," Fleischer wrote further on in the letter.
At a time when the European Commission is proposing to significantly enhance the protection of consumer privacy, Google need to be absolutely transparent about the data they capture and how it is used," Nick Pickles, director of privacy and civil...
Congress and Senate to demand an explanation from the companies who created the piracy problem as to why the solution should now be legislated on their terms, for their protection. Consumer Electronics Association
The agency alleges the data sharing with advertisers occurred between September 2008 and May 2010, according to Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the FTC's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.
Users continue to receive keyword data for ad clicks, despite what was allegedly a hard-and-fast, consumer-protection decision from Google. Favoring webmasters has the potential to hurt privacy, while favoring users could prevent sites from...
Google, for their part, sees the alleged consumer protection site as a "trusted site" despite numerous complaints and lawsuits over the years and Ripoff Report's practice of requiring money to add a statement to the top of the comments stating...
True, artists and right holders deserve to have their intellectual property protected, but not with laws that can be easily applied beyond their protection. Google has been joined by the ACLU, foreign civil rights groups, eBay, the Consumer...
Use trust-inducing language in calls to action, such as “check out using secure server” and be sure to include small privacy protection disclosures below information requests. Understand your consumer’s key fears/apprehensions and then address them.
Buy TLDs Where Possible for Protection If you have the budget, though, Hunt recommended purchasing the TLDs for legal and brand protection. Lising commented that 70 to 80 percent of the time, when they listen to the consumer and then make the...
So the question arises- in what form should consumer protection take within that commerce platform, and conversely, what protections should be afforded to merchants on the platform as well? This week has generated a lot of questions about the...
Almost everything about these sites is fake," said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. The sites often include the names and logos of major media outlets - such as ABC, Fox News, CBS, CNN, USA Today, and Consumer...
This real estate protection can help prevent lost transactions. Within any consumer lifecycle, the following stages typically lead the user to an informed purchase: Consumer Confidence Level Low By this stage of the buy funnel, the consumer is much...
The report states that industry efforts to address privacy through self-regulation "have been too slow, and up to now have failed to provide adequate and meaningful protection. However, earlier this month, the FTC released a 122 page staff report...
