Privacy news feed
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NIST supports 5 pilot programs for secure ‘identity ecosystem’
FierceCIO – To spur the development of a safe “identity ecosystem” for online commerce, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is giving $9 million to five test programs, reports Patience Wait at InformationWeek. The grants are part of NIST’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, which aims to prevent ID theft, boost consumer confidence in online transactions, and enhance the control that people have over their personal data…
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U.S. Is Tightening Web Privacy Rule to Shield Young
New York Times – Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. The moves come at a time when major corporations, app developers and data miners appear to be collecting information about the online activities of millions of young Internet users without their parents’ awareness, children’s advocates say…
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FTC Chairman: Advertisers Backing Away from ‘Do Not Track’ Pledge
Wall Street Journal – In February, the online advertising industry declared that it would agree to honor “Do Not Track” options in Web browsers by the end of the year– a reversal of its previous opposition to the anti-tracking effort. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the industry “appears to be backing off from its commitments…”