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Verizon, At&T To refrain From Online Behavioral Tracking

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2"><strong>Source: </strong><em>Lexology, </em>October 9, 2008.</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.lexology.com/r.ashx?i=1307670&l=6KGT6VA" target="_blank"><strong><font color="#3e3d40" size="2">Verizon, AT&T to refrain from online behavioral tracking</font></strong></a><br/><font size="2"><font color="#aea400"><span class="firm"><strong>Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP</strong></span><br/></font>"At a hearing last Thursday before the Senate Commerce Committee, AT&T and Verizon Communications pledged to refrain from tracking web site visits for the purpose of targeting advertising to Internet users, as they called for the adoption of voluntary, industry-wide standards under which Internet service providers (ISPs) would obtain consumer consent before collecting Internet usage data."</font></p>

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on October 09, 2008 (boomark / email).