TrueRep: Around the Web Posted Mon, May 21st by TrueRep in News, Online Privacy, Reputation Management, Social Media

Adobe Announces Privacy Solution for Digital Advertisers and Publishers 

Last week, Adobe Systems Incorporated announced enhancements to Adobe TagManager, which allow digital advertisers and publishers to offer consumers more flexible privacy solutions including notice and control over how their data is used online. Additionally, TagManager can help digital advertisers quickly and effortlessly configure data collection practices by geography.

Can We Retain Privacy in the Era of Big Data? 

The pervasiveness of social networks and the benefits of sharing personal information through social media resulted in people’s concern about their online privacy. In this article, author Don Tapscott questions the idea that privacy as a social norm is changing and becoming an outmoded concept.

Google Has Date with French Regulators 

Google is scheduled to meet with French regulators on May 23 to discuss the changes it implemented to its privacy policy last March as part of a pan-European deep dive into the search giant’s privacy policies.

SNOPA Addresses Online Privacy Concerns 

The Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA) was created to prevent employers, schools and universities from asking students and employees for their usernames and passwords on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. In addition to the workplace, this issue has also been prevalent in the education sector, which is even more troubling due to children’s inability to properly defend their rights to the same extent as adults can. States like New York, Illinois, and Maryland have already begun to address this issue; however, a federal statute still needs to be involved in resolving these concerns.