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“Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz released the agencys 2012 Annual Highlights today at the spring meeting of the American Bar Associations Section of Antitrust Law in Washington, DC, recognizing the agencys continued efforts to protect consumers and promote competition. The Highlights, published in an online format for the first time this year, focus on …
“In 2011, the digital revolution entered a new era. The age of mobile, in which people are connected to the web wherever they are, arrived in earnest. More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility …
Ken Doctor: “By the end of this year, figure that about 20 percent of the U.S.s 1,400-plus dailies will be charging for digital access. Gannetts February announcement that its going paywall at all its 80 newspapers [except USA Today] galvanized attention; when the third largest U.S. newspaper site, the Los Angeles Times, went paid this …
Search Engine Use 2012, by Kristen Purcell, Joanna Brenner, Lee Rainie, Mar 9, 2012 “Even though online Americans are more satisfied than ever with the performance of search engines, strong majorities have negative views of personalized search results and targeted ads…Google continues to dominate the list of most used search engines. Asked which search engine …
The Search for a New Business Model: An in-depth look at how newspapers are faring trying to build digital revenue, March 5, 2012 “A new study, which combines detailed proprietary data from individual newspapers with in-depth interviews at more than a dozen major media companies, finds that the search for a new revenue model to …
“Today, CDT is releasing its final best practices guidance for online subscription upsellingthe practice of offering add-on subscription services to consumers while theyre purchasing a separate product. This is an issue that CDT has worked on with industry and consumer advocates for the past couple of years, and we hope that the document we are …
News release: “As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing efforts to crack down on illegal, prerecorded “robocalls,” the FTC is taking legal action to stop two operations that allegedly enabled telemarketers to place hundreds of millions of illegal prerecorded calls to consumers around the country, including many who had registered their phone numbers on …
EPIC: “Attorneys general from 36 states and territories sent a letter to Google raising new questions about the plan to consolidate user data on March 1. “The new policy forces consumers to allow information across all of these products to be shared, without giving them the ability to opt out.,” the letter says. The state …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission today issued a staff report showing the results of a survey of mobile apps for children. The survey shows that neither the app stores nor the app developers provide the information parents need to determine what data is being collected from their children, how it is being shared, or …
Digital Advertising and News Who advertises on news sites and how much those ads are targeted “Between 2011 and 2015, revenue from digital advertising in the United States is expected to grow by 40% and to overtake all other platforms by 2016. Yet how much of that growth will go to underwrite news remains in …
“A privacyscore is a way to assess the privacy risk of using a website. Privacy risk is the chance that data about you will be used or shared in ways that you probably don’t expect. Privacyscores cover two kinds of data: We estimate privacy risk to personal data (such as your name or email address) …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission warned marketers of six mobile applications that provide background screening apps that they may be violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FTC warned the apps marketers that, if they have reason to believe the background reports they provide are being used for employment screening, housing, credit, or other …
