Privacy groups have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding behvaioral advertising practices, according to this Network World report. The complaint, filed Thursday by the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), U.S. PIRG and the World Privacy Forum, centers around the practice of real-time trading and sale of individual Internet users’ profiles, based on […]
Month: April 2010
Alleged lobbyist threat makes news in Colorado
The Denver Post reports on an alleged threat involving a lobbyist and a lawmaker. “He said he would cut out my lying tongue and stuff it down my lying throat,” [state Rep.] McKinley said. “My concern is that if something’s not done, it’s going to happen again, and then I will slap him. We cannot […]
Iowa: first out of the gate for Citizens United legislative response?
IowaPolitics.com reports on the state’s response to Citizens United. Iowa on Thursday became one of the first states in the nation to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which found that corporate spending in elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment.