Feb. 26, 2015 – To “bolster both consumer trust and marketplace growth,” the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) yesterday launched two new mobile tools for consumers that provide “transparency and choice over data collection wherever and however they access the Internet,” according to DAA General Counsel Stu Ingis. The new mobile tools – “AppChoices” and the […]
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privacyCoalition Panel: Data Regulation Focus Shifting from Privacy to Security
Sept. 29, 2014 – The federal government’s efforts to severely limit the ability of industry to gather and use online data have shifted away from data privacy and toward data security, according to speakers at the Coalition for Healthcare Communication’s recent meeting held Sept. 22-23 in Washington, D.C. “The interest in ‘do not track’ legislation […]
Read moreFTC Calls for Data Broker Legislation To Protect Consumers
May 29, 2014 – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a report May 27 in which it asks Congress to consider legislation that would require data brokers to provide consumers with access to their data and give them the ability to opt out of having that information shared. These legislative recommendations “would begin to build […]
Read moreFTC Cites Privacy Concerns Related to Mobile Health Apps
May 9, 2014 – Mobile health and fitness applications are on the Federal Trade Commission’s privacy-protection radar following a study of 12 mobile apps that widely shared data with other entities, according to FTC officials who spoke May 7 at the FTC’s Spring Privacy Series session, “Consumer Generated and Controlled Health Data.” The FTC Mobile […]
Read moreCoalition’s Policy Update: Keep Fiscal Challenges, Privacy Regulation on Radar
Jan. 15, 2013 – If 2012 – with its high number of new drug approvals, senior staff stability within the FDA and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and a definitive decision about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – is an indicator, then the 2013 Washington outlook for pharmaceutical companies is promising. However, […]
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