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via Placecast: How Consumers Really Feel About Data Privacy – “2,307 people were surveyed and it was found that use of data where the value exchange is explicit are most acceptable (grocery coupons, Amazon), while Facebooks data usage is least acceptable. Also, use of location data from either merchants or cell phone carriers is acceptable …
CRS – “Amazon” Laws and Taxation of Internet Sales: Constitutional Analysis, Erika K. Lunder – Legislative Attorney; John R. Luckey – Legislative Attorney, July 26, 2012 “As more and more purchases are made over the Internet, states are looking for new ways to collect taxes on these sales. While there is a common misperception that …
Capitalizing on the smarter consumer, IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2012 “The consumer is digital. Smarter consumers take technology completely for granted. Nearly half the people we surveyed are eager to use two or more technologies to shop. Younger consumers are particularly keen and teenage twitterati have now escaped the parental leash. The …
Interoperability Case Study: The Bar Code/UPC, Published July 15, 2012 by Matthew Becker. Download from SSRN “This case study is part of an ongoing series developed in support of a larger text on interoperability by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems (Basic Books, forthcoming, June 2012). The …
WSJ: “In the past, publishers and authors had no way of knowing what happens when a reader sits down with a book. Does the reader quit after three pages, or finish it in a single sitting? Do most readers skip over the introduction, or read it closely, underlining passages and scrawling notes in the margins? …
“What are cookies? – A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things eg remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the …
“EPIC has asked the Federal Trade Commission to review Facebook’s decision to change the default email address of Facebook users. The company recently removed email addresses, selected by users, with a @facebook.com address assigned by Facebook. EPIC asked the FTC to review this practice as it finalizes the terms of a settlement with Facebook. “Facebook’s …
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology: “The Web Privacy Census is intended to formalize the benchmarking process and measure internet tracking consistently over time…This effort was developed and executed in partnership with Abine, Inc. Abine has been our technical collaborator and resource partner, helping us develop a reliable method for web crawling and analysis of …
Ars Technica: “In a newly approved patent, an economics professor hopes to bring to the academic publishing world what seems to be forthcoming in the video game industrynew restrictions that would seemingly eliminate a secondary market for digital goods and prevent legal borrowing. Last week, the 2006 patent for a Web-based system and method to …
When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back? “When you use the Internet, you entrust your online conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, AT&T and Facebook. But what happens when the government demands that these companies to hand over your private information? Will the company stand with you? Will …
Via FindLaw: “Apple has responded to the United States’ antitrust complaint arising out of supposed collusion between Apple and book publishers to fix the price of e-books appearing on Apple’s iBooks store. The tech company calls the complaint “fundamentally flawed,” arguing that Apple’s entry into the marketplace actually broke Amazon’s de facto monopoly on e-books.” …
News release, Joaquín Almunia Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy: “In November 2010, the Commission launched an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google had abused a dominant market position. This followed a number of complaints. We have looked at those complaints and at others we received since the opening. And we …
