Filed under: Data, Datarati, Privacy, Web Analytics | Tags: Googlel Dashboard, Google Data Dashboard, Google Privacy
Google has launched a privacy dashboard, a one-stop-shop with all the information that Google knows about you and your online habits collected in one place.
Filed under: Ad Exchange, Ad Network, Behavioural Targeting, Privacy | Tags: Behavioural Targeting, House of Representatives, Online Advertising, Privacy
On Thursday, the House of Representatives subcommittees on communication and consumer protection plan to hold a joint hearing to discuss online advertising and privacy.
The lawmakers will hear testimony from online giants like Google (GOOG - news - people ), Facebook and Yahoo! ( YHOO -news - people ), as well as privacy advocates.
The digital advertising industry will be watching for signs that Congress is preparing regulation that could limit so-called “behavioral advertising,” the fine-grained ad-targeting methods used by companies like Google property DoubleClick and Microsoft (MSFT - news - people ) unit Aquantive.
More: http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/17/online-advertising-privacy-technology-security-congress.html
Yahoo reported last week that it would limit to 90 days the time it holds some personally identifiable information related to searches to address growing concerns from privacy advocates, policy makers and government regulators.
