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This article discusses two issues relating to the current use of media. The first is that social networking and other internet sites are increasingly collecting personal data from their users which co ...

Interview with Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Her views were sought on ten questions relating to advertising regulation: 1) the impact of advertising on the eco ...

With online gaming becoming a major entertainment form, there are growing concerns that websites promoting gambling and violent games have undesirable effects. Such concerns have led to numerous calls ...

Discusses regulatory issues and dangers facing US advertisers: possible limits to the advertising tax deduction, obesity and marketing food to children, alcohol advertising. One bonus: the passage of ...

The majority of research about offensive advertising has been conducted in Western countries. However, little is known about consumers' perceptions of offensive advertising in an Asian context, especi ...

For several years now, Internet users have ranked privacy as the issue that concerns them the most. This paper traces the development of privacy rights on the web with emphasis on the USA and EU. The ...

Towards the end of 2000, the main legal and ethical issues exercising the ANA in the USA were privacy, media violence, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, food and tobacco advertisin ...

This paper explores why some technologies (e.g. IT and telecoms) are well embraced whereas others, such as biotechnology, are more likely to generate anxiety. It examines the role of the internet in d ...

Will the digital marketplace redefine consumer lifestyles? Does networking improve the quality of our lives? What is the overall trend when it comes to internet usage - and what trends can be observed ...

Privacy issues, on-line and off-line, continue to dominate the ANA Washington agenda in September 2000.

In June 2000, some of the US major companies and trade organisations launched The Privacy Leadership Initiative to better understand consumer needs regarding privacy, and to develop and promote real, ...

Those who advertise globally on the internet are warned of the dangers of contravening national laws. For example, the Federal Trade Commission in the US prohibits `unfair or deceptive acts or practic ...

In July 2000 the key regulatory issue in the US facing ANA members was 'privacy', especially in regard to on-line access and security - the author discusses the situation.

This article summarizes the old and new remedies available under US law to trademark owners against 'cyberpirates' (who register, but do not use, trade marks as domain names) or others who seek to exp ...

The author describes the nature, history and value of 'cookies' - the little programs that are served to web browsers by Websites. He sees them as an important, and often under-utilised, aspect of in ...

This ANA executive discusses legislative issues prevalent in the USA in March 2000 - principally tax deductibility of advertising funds, and on-line privacy for Internet users.

The author discusses privacy issues prevalent in the USA in late 1999. He argues that self-regulation is absolutely vital if online commerce is to grow.

The author outlines privacy laws in the USA, and puts forward an argument for self-regulation, especially in the area of online profiling of consumers responding to Internet web sites.

The Future of Advertising Stakeholders summit set up four committees to accelerate the development and use of digital advertising models. The consumer acceptance committee has two working teams, priva ...

The Children's Advertising Review Unit has been at the vanguard of voluntary self-regulation of children's advertising for 24 years, initially in traditionally media and now on the Internet. CARU's 'G ...

In this regular look at topical ethical and legal issues in the USA, the ANA reports on privacy and the Internet as at August 1998.

In this regular update of legal and ethical issues current in the USA, the author discusses the privacy and tobacco debates of June 1998.

The author, from the ANA, discusses how US Internet companies should respond to the requirement for privacy statements to be made explicit in policy and website design before the FTC survey in March 1 ...

The information highway, thus far, has not become the free-wheeling 'public' frontier that many envisioned. This article cites numerous examples from recent cases where the courts appear to be applyin ...