Avantika Banerjee

The FTC recently reached a settlement with advertising company EPIC marketplace, regarding charges relating to ‘history sniffing’. Well, the first question is, what is history sniffing? A group of researchers from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, San Diego, USA published a paper titled An Empirical Study of Privacy-Violating Information Flows in JavaScript Web Applications have…

Robert E. Wilson, Samuel D. Gosling and Lindsay T. Graham have released a new report published by Sage based on literature review of academic articles relating to facebook research. Online version of this report can be found at http://pps.sagepub.com/content/7/3/203. 

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Niharika Sachdeva from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIT), Delhi have very recently published a new report titled Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0. Though I have not gone through the report in detail, at first glance the report seems to be a step in the right direction of researching and creating awareness…

The idea of applying of holding service providers liable for the acts committed by the users of the service has been around for a while. Personally I think holding a service provider liable for the illegal acts of the users is absurd, but then other might disagree. Taking this concept a step further, the Malaysian…

The Federal Trade Commission has published a guide to truth in advertising and basic privacy principles. The link for it is here.

THE RISE AND RISE OF SILICON ALLEY We all know New York City is a hot bed right now for technological entrepreneurs and start ups. A quick glimpse of the facts reveals the growth of the NYC tech scene. –           The Start up Genome Project (it collects data about start ups and entrepreneurs, to provide a…

The Center for an Urban Future recently released an informative and timely report  titled ‘The New Tech City’. For all those interested in New York City and its growth as a digital and entrepreneurial hub, this is a comprehensive report to refer to for data and information.

The International Chamber of Commerce UK, recently released the ‘UK Cookie Guide’. The Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog, has a comprehensive over view about the guide and its implications. The relevant post is available here.

I recently wrote an article titled “Essential Privacy Principles” which was published in the “ India Law And Technology Blog”. Here  is the link for it along with a repost (below). Privacy whether mobile or web based is a serious concern in the current technologically dependent environment. With multiple government as well as non-government bodies…

The FTC has Reached a settlement with online advertiser scan scout. This settlement is particularly interesting because scan scout like most advertisers had a privacy policy; but it was not following it. The data security and data collection practices stated on their site were not actually being implemented. The FTC settlement can be found here…