Category Archive: Privacy

Interview: Attorney Marty Eisenstein On Nexus, Gift Cards, The FTC, CAN-SPAM, And Other Legal Best Practices For Online Retailers

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
January 17, 2008
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Marty I. Eisenstein is a senior partner with Brann Isaacson, a law firm specializing in direct marketing law. Marty shared his thoughts on tax law, gift cards, and general legal best practices for online retailers.

Google Held To Higher Privacy Standard?

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
April 30, 2007
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Matt Cutts and Tim O’Reilly note that Google is being held to a higher privacy standard than other firms who have far far more data on us (e.g. ISPs, credit card companies, credit bureaus, etc). They’re right.

Google Promises To Forget

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
March 15, 2007
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Google overhaul its privacy policies, will dump user-specific search data more than 18 months stale.

Mailinator: Disposable Public Email Addresses

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
March 13, 2007
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Need a temporary email to receive a registration from a website? Try Mailinator.

11% of Sites Vulnerable To SQL Injection: Is Yours?

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
September 27, 2006
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Preventing SQL injection isn’t all that hard — yet 11% of sites haven’t got it right yet.

AOL Search Data Release: Class Action Lawsuit Filed

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
September 26, 2006
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Search data not be used for commercial purposes? Too much money at stake — never going to happen.

Web Signatures and Soft Cookies: Guessing The Identity of Anonymous Site Visitors

Alan Rimm-Kaufman
September 24, 2006
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Some day, in far distant future — I’d predict about five years out — sites might be able to make reasonable guesses as who is using the site, just by their browsing behavior.