Online analytics provider Quantcast announced Saturday that it settled a law suit leveled against it for using the infamous regenerating flash cookies. It will take a $2.4 million hit, a lot of which will go toward funding privacy advocate groups chosen by the suit’s plaintiffs [Wired]
And speaking of those flash cookies, the FTC – who recently announced its proposed privacy plan – is talking to Adobe about them…presumably to figure out if/how they fit into our online future… [Engadget]
We sort of touched on it last week, but where the FTC’s proposed “Do Not Track” plan could do the most damage is to publishers, who rely on user tracking to ensure advertising doesn’t get repetitive for individual users… [paidcontent.org]
But it sure won’t help the advertising industry itself either… [NY Times]
And if you’re a website owner, you may want to read this and make sure you know “how the FTC’s ‘Do Not Track’ idea may affect your site”… [PC World]
Outside of all this “Do Not Track,” there’s also a group of “data mining companies” that are working on something called the Open Data Partnership, which will show users how much/what information those companies have about them and their online behavior, and allow them to edit this info [WSJ]
Finally, with little buzz, Australian Police have cleared Google of any wrongdoing in its Street View efforts within Australia… [Australian IT]
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