Reflections on the FTC’s Disclosure Evaluation Workshop
By: Lorrie Cranor | Nov 30, 2016 11:11AM
On September 15, 2016, the FTC convened a public workshop, Putting Disclosures to the Test, that examined ways of testing and evaluating the effectiveness of disclosures in communicating a wide range of information that consumers need to make informed decisions in the marketplace.
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FTC disclosure evaluation research from the archives
By: Lorrie Cranor, FTC Chief Technologist | Sep 12, 2016 1:35PM
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A deep dive into mobile app location privacy following the InMobi settlement
By: Nithan Sannappa and Lorrie Cranor | Aug 9, 2016 12:55PM
In June, the Commission announced its first settlement with a mobile advertising network, InMobi. Among other things, the Commission’s complaint challenges the company’s location tracking practices. In this post, we explain the mechanism that the Commission alleges InMobi used to track users’ location without permission, and discuss technical steps that mobile operating systems have taken to try to address this practice.
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Tell us About Your Experiences “Putting Disclosures to the Test”
By: Lorrie Cranor | Jun 1, 2016 5:04PM
As we recently announced, the Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop on September 15, 2016 to examine the testing and evaluation of disclosures that companies make to consumers about advertising claims, privacy practices, and other information. Our goal is to encourage and improve the evaluation and testing of disclosures by industry, academics, and the FTC.
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By: Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist | Sep 25, 2014 3:59PM
Online ads, exclusive online communities, and the potential for adverse impacts from big data analytics
Online advertising today is a big data analytic marvel, deciding in the time it takes to load a web page which ad, among billions, to deliver to which of billions of domains. Large and fast for sure, but what are the ramifications of some of the decisions ad networks are making?
