FTC Fines Santa Claus Over COPPA Violations
WASHINGTON–Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced a record fine against Santa Claus for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.“Mr. Claus has flagrantly violated children’s privacy, collecting their consumer preferences for toys and also tracking their behavior so as to judge and maintain a data base of naughtiness and niceness,” Leibowitz...
Daily Must Reads, Nov. 30, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology
1. CNN cites quality of iReporters' cameras when laying off photojournalists (PetaPixel)
2. U.S. judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook (Ars Technica)
3. Is Siri anti-abortion? (The Raw Story)
4. FTC announces 20-year privacy deal with Facebook (paidContent)
Daily Must Reads, Nov. 11, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology
1. Judge: Feds can get Twitter users' data without warrant (Wall Street Journal)
2. Facebook settles with FTC to make new privacy changes opt-in (TechCrunch)
3. Romenesko out at Poynter after attribution problems surface (Media Decoder)
Attack of the Attack Ads: Citizens United and the 2012 Elections
In 2012, two tidal waves will reconfigure the American electoral system and the news media that cover it. A tsunami made of money will buoy up the structure of entrenched political power, while a huge wave of personal technology will disru...
