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Website Tracking
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Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Spanish Data Privacy Regulator Issues New Cookies Guidance
By Odia Kagan
Cookies and trackers sat on a wall. Cookies and trackers had a great fall. ...and all the regulators and all DPAs couldn't put cookies together again. The Spanish Agencia Española…
Data Protection Report
NT Analyzer Blog Series: Why So Many Cookie Policies Are Broken, Part I – HTML5 LocalStorage
Cookies Are One Piece of a Larger Puzzle There has been an odd preoccupation with cookies for some time now—to the exclusion of other forms of browser tracking, some of…
Your IT Consultant
Firefox Default – Block Trackers
By John Simek
The good news is privacy is becoming more and more important for users. The bad news…advertisers want to track your internet activity to serve you targeted ads. More bad news…
Your IT Consultant
Browser ‘Do Not Track’ is Worthless
By John Simek
You might think that enabling the 'do not track' feature of your browser would stop a website from tracking you. I love how Gizmodo describes the feature. "Do Not Track"…
Eye On Privacy
New York Federal Court Dismisses Nationwide Class Action Arising Out of Alleged Spying by E-Commerce Retailers
In a victory for online retailers, a New York federal court recently dismissed three putative class action lawsuits brought on behalf of website visitors whose mouse clicks, keystrokes, and electronic…
The Data Advisor
Judge Dismisses Facebook Web-Tracking MDL
In November 2017, Judge Edward J. Davila dismissed a major multidistrict litigation accusing Facebook of unlawfully tracking users’ browsing activity across websites while they were signed out of their accounts.1…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Web Trackers: What others may know about your online footprint
Web Trackers have been a hot topic in recent news, yet most of us are oblivious not only the extent they are used, but also to the potential for misuse…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #13 – Web Trackers: What others may know about your online footprint
Web Trackers have been a hot topic in recent news, yet most of us are oblivious not only the extent they are used, but also to the potential for misuse…
Inside Privacy
English Court of Appeal Decision Significantly Expands UK Privacy Law
By Dan Cooper
Dan Cooper and Phil Bradley-Schmieg On March 27, 2015, the England and Wales Court of Appeal (EWCA) handed down a historic judgment in Google Inc v. Vidal-Hall & Ors [2015]…
Inside Privacy
Have EU Privacy Regulators Just Spelled the End of Web Tracking?
On November 25, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) issued an opinion paper on device fingerprinting (the “Opinion”). The Opinion builds on existing guidance on cookies (Opinion 04/2012) and…