Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to controversy where Facebook is concerned. His first go at a social website drew charges from Harvard (where he was enrolled at the time), and Facebook itself famously endured copyright claims from alleged contributors shortly after its launch. Privacy practices have haunted Facebook throughout its online life, and recently...
Collectively, the last few years have been one long coming-out party for online privacy. The FTC held well publicized privacy roundtable discussions. A highly visible online privacy bill was introduced in Congress (and several others followed behind it). Facebook and Google got caught up in a media privacy frenzy. The the Wall Street Journal released a series of articles...
As explained in our last post, Analytics Providers are providers of cross-platform statistical analysis that increases their users’ ability to understand market effectiveness. This is a purposefully broad definition, and it encompasses everything from paid Analytics Providers, such as Omniture – a company that can charge thousands of dollars for its software – to...
What a weekend for privacy concerns in the media! Looks like the Wall Street Journal has taken an aggressive approach with their new “What They Know” Internet privacy series. They’ve recommended Ghostery, which we certainly appreciate. The article brought up some very interesting points. A recent a study they performed “to measure the quantity...
Howdy Ghosterians, One of the really valuable things about our Ghostery community is when users contact us via email or our support forums to give us the heads-up on scripts they think should be added to our database. Our users have helped us find invisible scripts of all kinds, including behavioral data trackers, other...
The evolution of Ghostery under Better Advertising’s ownership over the last few months has been fast paced. The Ghostery team’s goal has been to bolster your capacity for bug free web browsing, which brings us to V.2.1 of Ghostery. New in V.2.1: Refreshing your browser to implement option updates is no longer necessary –...
Baked-In Browser Privacy
Internet privacy is growing up in a hurry. We’ve talked before about how 2010 was a banner year for those of us interested in a more transparent web, and 2011 shows signs of continuing that momentum. Some recent examples of this phenomenon were announcements by Microsoft and Mozilla that revealed plans to build in...
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