Documents tagged with user empowerment

Transcript PFF Online Child Safety Privacy Hill Event (7-27-2009)

This is transcript of a program that took place on July 27, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The event was hosted by The Progress & Freedom Foundation (www.PFF.org). The audio for this event can be heard ...
  • Adam Thierer published this 08 / 18 / 2009
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COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech

Online privacy, child safety, free speech and anonymity are on a collision course. The 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) already mandates certain online privacy protections for ...
  • Berin Szoka published this 05 / 21 / 2009
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Google’s Ad Preference Manager: One Small Step for Google, One Giant Leap for Privacy

Google's new "Interest Based Advertising" (IBA) program represents the company's first foray into what is generally called "Online Behavioral Advertising" (OBA): In order to deliver more relevant ...
  • Berin Szoka published this 03 / 11 / 2009
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Targeted Online Advertising: What's the Harm & Where Are We Heading?

The Federal Trade Commission should avoid laying the groundwork for more onerous regulation of the online advertising marketplace, state Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer in "Targeted Online Advertising...
  • Berin Szoka published this 02 / 18 / 2009
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Parental Controls and Online Content Protection-Version 4.0 (Adam Thierer - PFF)

This is version 4.0 of "Parental Controls & Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods." This booklet is published by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tan...
  • Adam Thierer published this 05 / 05 / 2008
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