{"id":1817,"date":"2008-11-17T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2008-11-17T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T13:34:30","slug":"att-sponsors-new-privacy-policy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/17\/att-sponsors-new-privacy-policy-group\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T Sponsors New Privacy Policy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a press release<\/span> story<\/a> about the launch of something called the Future of Privacy Forum:<\/p>\n

A group of privacy scholars, lawyers and corporate officials are launching an advocacy group today designed to help shape standards around how companies collect, store and use consumer data for business and advertising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, okay.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s certainly something that I’d like to see get more attention.\u00c2\u00a0 But what does this group bring to the discussion that the Center for Democracy & Technology, EPIC, and the EFF don’t already?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, here’s the answer:<\/p>\n

The group, the Future of Privacy Forum, will be led by Jules Polonetsky, who until this month was in charge of AOL<\/a>‘s privacy policy, and Chris Wolf, a privacy lawyer for law firm Proskauer Rose [ed. note – and also one of AT&T’s law firms<\/em>] . They say the organization, which is sponsored by AT&T, aims to develop ways to give consumers more control over how personal information is used for behavioral-targeted advertising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because AT&T cares<\/em> <\/a>about your privacy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Also from the press release<\/span> story:<\/p>\n

Mike Zaneis, vice president for public policy for the Interactive Advertising Bureau<\/a>, which represents online publishers such as Google<\/a> and Yahoo<\/a> as well as advertisers such as Verizon<\/a>, said online privacy issues have long been debated and that “having another voice in this area could help.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yup.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it’s probably a safe bet that we can look forward to this group muddying the waters of most any privacy policy discussion in the near future.\u00c2\u00a0 That isn’t to say this is an entirely useless voice – it’s expected to generally argue for “opt-in” tracking<\/a> – but anything they issue should be viewed with the question of how it will benefit AT&T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a press release story about the launch of something called the Future of Privacy Forum: A group of privacy scholars, lawyers and corporate officials are launching an advocacy group today designed to help shape standards around how companies collect, store and use consumer data for business and advertising. Well, okay.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-law","category-policy","category-politics","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}