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Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL

James Polonetsky Jules Polonetsky, AOL's chief privacy officer Source: AOL Many of the largest companies on the Web are using ad dollars to pay their power bills, so much so that advertising -- particularly when based around targeted ads -- has the engine of the modern Internet economy. Google's empire was built on ad dollars. Microsoft's effort to purchase Yahoo was about bringing in more ad revenue. Internet pioneer AOL is pegging its entire future on plans to transform itself into an ad-supported media and content company.

Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL

AOL's top privacy watchdog talks about how online data collection really works, balancing data and consumer privacy, and the government's role.

Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL

Many of the largest companies on the Web are using ad dollars to pay their power bills, so much so that advertising -- particularly when based around targeted ads -- has become the engine of the modern Internet economy. Google's empire was built on ad dollars. Microsoft's effort to purchase Yahoo was about bringing in more ad revenue. Internet pioneer AOL is pegging its entire future on plans to transform itself into an ad-supported media and content company.

Q&A: Jules Polonetsky, Chief Privacy Officer, AOL

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Art In Motion Announces the Appointment of New Chief Executive Officer

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - June 11, 2008) - Art In Motion Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:AIM.UN - News) today announced that Allan Achtemichuk has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Art In Motion Limited Partnership ("AIM LP"), the operating subsidiary of the Fund. His appointment follows the resignation of former Chief Executive Officer, Larry Sullivan. The Board of Trustees of the Fund accepted Mr. Sullivan's resignation on June 10, 2008, and has commenced the process of reviewing candidates to fill the role of Chief Financial Officer of AIM LP.

Understanding Privacy

privacyprof writes "Slashdot readers familiar with Professor Daniel J. Solove's essay, 'I've Got Nothing to Hide and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy,' might be interested in his new book, Understanding Privacy, which develops many of the ideas in that essay. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, there has been a great struggle to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible. The book argues there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by 'family resemblances'. It explains the framework for understanding privacy which was briefly discussed in the 'Nothing to Hide' essay. The book covers the framework in greater depth and explores how it applies to a wide array of privacy issues, such as data mining, surveillance, data security, and consumer privacy.

Don't You Feel Safer Now That Google Added A Link To Its Privacy Policy?

One of the more idiotic accusations thrown at Google of late was this idea that it was somehow a problem that it didn't link directly to its privacy policy from its home page. It had a privacy policy. That privacy policy was easy to find. Almost no one actually reads its privacy policy -- but a bunch of privacy groups who surely had more important things to spend their time on got all upset that Google refused to link from its front page. It appears that Google has now given in and agreed to link to the privacy policy, oddly removing the word "Google" from its copyright notice and replacing it with a link to the privacy policy.

AOL Launches WalletPop.com; Upgrades AOL Money & Finance Features

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--AOL announced the launch of WalletPop, http://walletpop.com, a new personal finance site and a spin-off of AOL Money & Finance, http://money.aol.com. The new site will help consumers survive and thrive in today’s economy by focusing on all aspects of consumer and personal finance, while AOL Money & Finance will continue to focus on business and investing news, tools and analysis. AOL Money & Finance is one of the most visited finance sites, with more than 15.2 million unique visitors each month and more page views than any other financial site.

Chief Privacy Officer Testimony, "Protecting Personal Information: Is the Federal Government Doing Enough?"

Testimony of Chief Privacy Officer Hugo Teufel III before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: "Protecting Personal Information: Is the Federal Government Doing Enough?"

Italian Privacy Advocates and Jurists Launch New Privacy Institute

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of prominent Italian privacy advocates and jurists have launched the Italian Institute for Privacy (www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/), a public policy think tank focused on improving privacy protection in the digital age. This broad-based coalition of prominent Italians will focus its efforts on the protection of personal privacy online for citizens in

Italian Privacy Advocates and Jurists Launch New Privacy Institute

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of prominent Italian privacy advocates and jurists have launched the Italian Institute for Privacy (www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/en/), a public policy think tank focused on improving privacy protection in the digital age. This broad-based coalition of prominent Italians will focus its efforts on the protection of personal privacy online for citizens in

Kees Koolen Named Chief Executive Officer Of Priceline.com's Booking.com International Business Unit

NORWALK, Conn. | Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced the promotion of Kees Koolen, 42, to Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com B.V., which is priceline.com's principal international business unit. Mr. Koolen will report to priceline.com's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeffery H. Boyd. The promotion will be effective September 1, 2008.

Kees Koolen Named Chief Executive Officer Of Priceline.com's Booking.com International Business Unit

NORWALK, Conn. | Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced the promotion of Kees Koolen, 42, to Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com B.V., which is priceline.com's principal international business unit. Mr. Koolen will report to priceline.com's President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeffery H. Boyd. The promotion will be effective September 1, 2008.

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AOL Users Will Need to Pay $2 a Month For Phone Support

destinyland writes "8.7 million AOL subscribers face a new 20% fee increase next month — unless they agree to never call AOL's technical support lines. They'll have to use AOL chat for support or the online help "portal" unless their issue is a failed connection — and they're being enrolled in the program by default unless they opt out. Ominously, AOL used the exact same wording as when they quietly changed their terms of service to allow them to sell subscribers' home phone numbers to telemarketers. 'Your continued subscription to the AOL service constitutes your acceptance of this change.'"

Privacy Policies Only as Good as the People Enforcing Them

Techdirt is reporting that while we all know privacy policies may not matter much in the grand scheme of things, a recent study shows that it may be even worse than originally surmised. It seems that the real issue is with who has access to personal data and what they are able to do with it. "of course, it's not just the people reading the policies that don't seem to understand them -- it's those in charge of living up to and enforcing the policies. A new study surveyed a bunch of executives, including both marketing execs and those in charge of enforcing the privacy policy, and quickly discovered that marketers have a very different concept of 'privacy' than privacy officers. Not surprisingly, they don't see anything wrong with sharing all sorts of data that seems to horrify privacy officers.

AOL Launches New Personal Finance Site, Image GalleryBut The Brand Is Absent

imageDespite shifting focus to an ad-supported business and ad network years ago, AOL (NYSE: TWX) can’t seem to shake the image of being known as that dial-up ISP. So rather than continue to fight, AOL is finding that it might just be better to erase it, or at least downplay it somewhat. Case in point: two new channels, a personal finance site called WalletPop and a free professional images site, Pixcetera, debuted this morning—both without the AOL brand prominently featured on its site (scroll way down) or in the URL. That said, the sites do have the same look and feel of others and AOL’s main page features a link that does connect directly to WalletPop—but the link only says “Money� and doesn’t identify the site by name. As AOL continues its site rollout—the company is in the process of creating a new one aimed at younge

Google Adds Privacy Policy Link

After a month of pressure from privacy groups, search engine Google has finally agreed to add a link on its homepage to the company's privacy policy. Google had resisted the addition of a privacy link, saying it did not want to clutter its homepage. "We're making a homepage change by adding a link to our privacy overview and policies," Marissa Mayer, vice president of Search Products & User Experience, said in a July 3 Google Blog post. "Google values our users' privacy first and foremost. Trust is the basis of everything we do, so we want you to be familiar and comfortable with the integrity and care we give your personal data."

Responding to Critics, Google Adds Privacy Link to Home Page

On June 3rd a group of privacy advocates, including California-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the World Privacy Forum, Consumer Action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Federation of California, and ACLU of Northern California - among others - sent a detailed letter to Google CEO CEO Eric Schmidt, charging that the lack of a privacy link on Google's home page was not just "alarming," but violated the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003.

IBM Introduces Optim Data Privacy Solutions

IBM announced open client and partner testing of the new IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution for use with SAP solutions, which provides enterprise data management and data privacy capabilities in support of SAP applications. The IBM Optim Data Privacy Solution offers data masking techniques to protect privacy in development, testing and training environments. IBM Optim Data Privacy Solutions are also available for use with Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel, and Amdocs CRM.

Google's Latest Silly Privacy Problem

Well now that Google's dealt with one ridiculous privacy complaint, it appears it has another to deal with. As Google is preparing to launch its "Street View" offerings in Europe (which let people see photos of the streets they search for on Google Maps), some privacy groups are complaining how its a violation of people's privacy. Apparently the fact that they were photographed out in public hasn't occurred to the privacy group. Even more to the point, as Google has pointed out in response, despite the fact that anyone caught in these photographs was in public, it's recently rolled out a system to automatically blur faces of people who end up in the Street View photos. Overall, the whole complaint seems to be much ado about nothing from privacy advocates who have much more important things to focus on.

Fedora considering a new privacy policy

For a while now, we've been butting up against the Red Hat Privacy Policy (which we've been using to cover Fedora). To try to address some of these concerns, I sat down and made a new privacy policy for Fedora to use that is independent of Red Hat's Privacy Policy. I made a draft, then sent it over to Red Hat Legal for review. They made some minor changes and sent it back to me. Here it is for you folks to look over: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/PrivacyPolicyD... Keep in mind that while this is more open than the Red Hat Privacy Policy, I think it is more in keeping with the spirit of Fedora. (Also, it is directly derived from Red Hat's privacy policy, so its not as if I completely rewrote it from scratch). Barring any major failures, I plan to present this for approval at next week's board meeting.

Does Anyone Really Care Where Google Places Its Privacy Policy?

In the past, we've discovered that most people don't read a website's privacy policy, and many (incorrectly) assume that as long as a site has a privacy policy, then it means that the site will keep their info private -- even if the policy is to say the exact opposite. Basically, what this means is privacy policies are almost entirely meaningless. Yet, some still think they're important for show. Even more than that, they think that where you put the privacy policy matters. And that's put Google into a bit of a bind, as it tries to join the Network Advertising Initiative, a trade group that sets standards relating to how companies collect data for advertising purposes. The problem is that one of the NAI's principles is that the proper thing to do is put a link to your privacy policy on the homepage -- something that Google refuses to do.

Google chief exec targeted over privacy policy

Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt has been targeted by privacy groups over the way the company allegedly fails to fully advertise its privacy policy.

Google needs link to privacy policy on homepage, say privacy groups

Google has been urged to add a link from its search engine homepage to its privacy policy. An open letter sent today by US consumer and privacy groups echoes the call of an influential group of privacy law experts in Europe. Google has rejected the calls.

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