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"Do Not Track" setback as privacy advocate resigns Working Group
Advocate for DO NOT TRACK working group resigns after failing to progress to a technological standard. The Atlantic Ocean is commonly referred to as the ‘pond’, signifying the relatively small...
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BP and Tesco among first brands to join RBS/NatWest cashback loyalty scheme
BP, Cineworld and Tesco are among the first brands to join a new debit-card loyalty scheme from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest. The reward scheme, called Cashback Plus, lets customers earn...
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Advertisers welcome Ad2One’s lead on ad misplacement crackdown
Advertisers have welcomed Ad2One’s move to receive independent verification for its brand safety policies as part of a new IPA-ISBA-led initiative aimed at protecting brands from ad misplacement. The...
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IAB moves to quell confusion around online ad regulations in site revamp
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is upping its efforts to help advertisers stay ahead of online ad regulations and policies with a website revamp. The body has launched a Digital Policy Guide,...
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US intelligence 'regularly' access smartphone and laptop cameras
US law-enforcement officials are “routinely” tapping into the microphones of smartphone users, according to revelations in court documents that have come to light in criminal cases, the Wall Street...
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Concern over State policy to name and shame fine defaulters
A government website in Australia has adopted a policy of publicly naming and shaming people online who have failed to pay State Government fines. Western Australia’s state Attorney-General Michael...
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Founders of Pirate Bay are building a messaging app where “'no one can listen...
One of the founders of the Pirate Bay is building a mobile application with end-to-end encryption so that only the sender and recipient can gain access to the messages sent across the network. In...
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AOP chair calls for more publishers to embrace private ad exchanges to...
Publishers should follow in News Corp’s footsteps and embrace private exchanges to wrestle back control of digital ad trading, according to chairman of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) John...
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'Life-Logging' camera that takes photo every 30 seconds shrugs off privacy...
Following the pioneering work of Microsoft engineer Gordon Bell, a young Swedish entrepreneur has shrugged off any privacy concerns and launched a new camera that takes a picture every thirty seconds....
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BPI to meet with David Cameron in attempt to resurrect controversial Digital...
Record companies are upset that the Digital Economy Act, designed to help combat piracy, has yet to be implemented despite becoming law in 2010. In a move seen as an attempt to resurrect the Digital...
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Why regulating pornography is harder than it sounds
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks since David Cameron announced plans for filtering pornography on the internet. Although the media attention has died down dramatically, I lay out the argument of why...
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Soca rogue private investigator client list release delayed for another month
The release of the Serious Organised Crime Agency's (SOCA) list containing 98 sources who hired rogue investigators has been delayed, despite MPs threatening to publish the report in parliament. The...
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70% of marketers feel ill-equipped to handle “big data” challenges, says GfK...
Marketers feel underqualified to handle the challenges presented by the rise of “big data”, with 70 per cent admitting they don’t have the necessary skills, according to a GfK and Guardian Media...
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Yahoo UK partners with Symantec to launch Tech for You – a news channel...
Yahoo UK has launched Tech for You , a new technology channel within Yahoo News, in partnership with Symantec. The channel has been developed to provide users with content to help them navigate...
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"Orwell could never have imagined anything as complete as this": The...
Reporting for The Drum from Advertising Week New York, Patrick Baglee attends one of the most anticipated sessions of the week - Mission Impossible III: Inside Snowden. On stage, Guardian...
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ISBA criticises “scaremonger” tactics around latest push for EU Data...
ISBA has criticised EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding’s calls to reinstate consumer trust in the data-driven economy by accelerating the EU data protection reforms. Reding, who made her speech at...
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Another Snowden shocker :' Social connections are mapped by NSA'
Another shocker from the New York Times yesterday: For almost three years the much-discussed US National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans’ social...
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Publishers must “take control” of first-party data in programmatic trading to...
Publishers must protect against buyers “dictating” the value of their audiences and prices to protect their yields in the programmatic space, says Google’s head of publishers, UK Partner Business...
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US tried to ban email service linked to Snowden, Lavabit, from alerting users...
The founder of secure email provider Lavabit, Ladar Levison, has filed the opening brief of an appeal against a court order forcing him to hand over the service’s encryption keys. Lavabit is widely...
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Skype under investigation for giving spooks users' personal data
Luxembourg's Information Commissioner is investigating Skype for handing over personal data to the NSA under the auspices of the PRISM porgram. Do you use Skype to talk with your friends and family...
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Google unveils 'Project Shield' to counter cyber attacks
Google has announced its ‘Project Shield’ initiative, designed to protect news organisations and human rights groups from cyber attacks. The project is amongst a suite of new services which it said...
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Australians hacked into US Government computers, court claims
A criminal case against a hacking collective has heard that the group, which includes two Australians, broke into NASA, US Army and the US Missile Defence Agency's computer systems. The court claims...
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Now Snowden may spill the beans over NSA in testimony in Germany
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has offered to testify to German authorities about the US National Security Agency’s mass surveillance which has caused uproar around the world. He made the offer after...
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Tesco facial recognition at checkouts will ‘change the face of British...
Tesco is to install facial recognition software at its checkouts to collect customers’ details, and plans to rollout the technology ‘into as many supermarkets as possible’. The technology is provided...
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Lord Chief Justice says courts will ‘loosen up’ and introduce trial via Skype...
The Lord Chief Justice in England, Lord Thomas has signalled that the criminal courts could see accused giving evidence via Skype and Facetime. He said that the courts need to “loosen up” over their...
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Bike, Clothing, Guru, Singles, Holdings, Plumbing, Ventures . . . new...
Major strides have been taken this week toward broadening choices in the domain name system as the the Internet’s addressing system widens choices beyond current offerings, such as .COM. Donuts.com...
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Google tests technology that follows mobile users to see if they visit the...
Google is beta-testing a programme that can track smartphone and tablet users everywhere they go, which could allow advertisers to find out if users who search for a store online actually visit it in...
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Google Maps shows apparent crime scene and corpse
A Google Maps image taken over the town of Richmond, California, has emerged showing what appears to be a crime scene, with police in attendance and a corpse prone on the ground. The date of the...
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Leaked Prism data reveals Australia tapped phones of Indonesian PM and wife
Data leaked by former NSA private contractor Edward Snowden has revealed that Australia's intelligence services attempted to listen in on the personal phone calls of the Indonesian president, Susilo...
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Father claims Google corpse is his son and requests image removal
A man has told Los Angeles TV station KTVU that he is the father of the young man whose body is visible in a crime scene image on Google maps, and has used a TV appearance to call for Google to remove...
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‘This is the era of consequences. Be real or be rejected’: Forrester’s...
Trust has become a cornerstone value for brands today and strong messaging just doesn’t cut it anymore, according to Forrester analyst Anthony Mullen. Speaking at the Lewis Silkin Brand Academy of the...
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Australian Government follows UK lead and deletes prior speeches from the...
Only two weeks after news broke that the UK conservative led Government had deleted all archives of many of its prior speeches from the internet, it has emerged that the Australian conservative led...
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ACCC sweep finds inadequate disclosure in iTunes and Google Play apps
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has undertaken a ‘sweep’ of 340 apps available via Google and Apple's app store, and found that it has highlighted the potential for misleading and...
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Half of customers will be less willing to share personal information online...
Nearly half of customers (49 per cent) admit they will be less willing to share personal information with firms online over the next five years, research from Ernst & Young has found. The survey,...
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EU Data Protection regulation talks delayed but “battle is far from over”,...
Talks held between the Ministers’ Justice and Home Affairs Council regarding the draft European Union’s (EU) Data Protection Regulation revisions, failed to reach a conclusion last week (6 December)...
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Is an amnesty for Snowden the only way we will find out what he took?
Jut how much did former NSA contractor Edward Snowden pull from US government computers before leaving the United States? American investigators have now decided, that they may never know , the New...
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Information Commissioner's Office publishes app data safety guidelines
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has provided new guidelines to ensure app developers are more transparent with the data they access and share to help app users protect their personal data....
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New York judge rules NSA mass data collection programme to be legal
The US Government surveillance by the National Security Authority, the level of which was exposed earlier this year by former employee Edward Snowden, has been ruled as legal by a Federal Judge. The...
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Tattoo artist consults Rihanna's lawyers after his image ends up on H&M...
Tattoo artist Richard Elsby, known as Gold Frank, says he has been left in "shock" after discovering photos he had taken for his website in June 2012 have ended up on t-shirts being sold...
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Social networks face user confidence crisis over personal data ownership,...
Social networks are facing a user confidence crisis when it comes to the use of personal data, with the majority (92 per cent) of UK adults uncomfortable sharing their data with them, according to an...
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