Posts Tagged ‘Privacy’
How Consumers Believe Businesses Use Online Publicly-Available Information [CHART]
via emarketer.com Only 34% of respondents were aware that browsing history was used to provide product recommendations, and 37% were aware of search engine data being leveraged in the same way. When told how the data was being used, respondents showed the most discomfort with these approaches. Read the rest at eMarketer.
Read MoreTop Concerns About Location-Based Services [CHART]
via emarketer.com almost one-quarter of respondents said their greatest privacy concern was having their information used for marketing purposes. The same percentage of people named having strangers know too much about their activities as their top worry. Read the rest at eMarkerter.
Read MorePerceived Risks vs. Benefits Of Location-Based Services [CHART]
via emarketer.com Consumers are taking to the use of location-based services on mobile devices because of the convenience such services offer. A March 2012 poll of US mobile app users by global security association ISACA found that 58% of those who had smart devices had used location-based apps, compared with only 15% who had not.…
Read MorePrivacy, Schmivacy
22% of consumers always read privacy statements.
Read MoreEmail Eavesdropping
33% of Americans checked their boyfriend’s or girlfriends email or call history on the sly.
Read MoreSearch Engine Marketing & Behavioral Targeting
67% of Internet users are opposed to targeting advertising based on the types of websites you visit.
Read MoreSpokeo & Privacy
David Erickson speaks with WCCO TV’s Reg Chapman about privacy concerns over the social media aggregation site Spokeo.
Read MoreFacebook's Privacy Problem
Has Facebook gone too far with their recent privacy changes?
Read MoreNew Facebook Privacy Opens The Floodgates, Offers More Control
Facebook’s new privacy settings should have the effect of substantially increasing the volume of user-created content that is available to the general public.
Read MoreInternet Technology & Corporate Responsibility
A discussion hosted by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley: Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.
The panel addresses issues of free speech and censorship, surveillance and privacy, human rights and law enforcement, the use and abuse of technology, and the effect it has on society at large.
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