Behavioral targeting companies had better call their lawyers. Federal Trade Commission consumer protection head David Vladeck warned this morning that the commission is getting ready to go after online ad companies that try to get around consumers’ decisions to avoid online ad targeting. – Read More

Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously said that Web users no longer cared about privacy. A new social norm had taken hold, he said. If he was going to launch Facebook again today, he would do so without the old settings that kept information hidden from outsiders. It was another big miscalculation for a company that has stumbled time and again on privacy. – Read More

[from Gawker] – As it is wont to do, Gawker continues to hound Newsday over what it considers the Long Island paper’s “dismal” online subscriber number… – Read More

[from Engadget] – ATandT devoted much of its earning call this week to the issue of it network — “not too surprising, really, considering the cozy relatio… – Read More

Haven’t seen enough commentary and analysis on the iPad yet? As the smoke clears on the world’s most hyped product launch ever, one thing that seems clear is that the Apple tablet isn’t the answer to a particular problem. – Read More

[from NY Sports Journalism] – With a strategy reminiscent of And 1and#39;s andquot;Mixtape Tour,andquot; Burger King will hit 41 cities in four months starting Feb. 5, see… – Read More

The Conservative Party in the U.K. hopes its dedicated in-house digital team and agency partners help update its image and woo voters in the digital sphere. – Read More

Rishad Tobaccowala is a management board member of VivaKi, Publicis’ digital marketing shared services and incubation group. Rishad is a true pioneer in the space. So what lessons did the man who’s constantly reinventing learn from Google? – Read More

Imagine if Apple built an ad-serving platform that could compete with Google’s AdSense and AdWords, along with a social network and online search engine for PC and mobile. Some speculate the company moves closer to that model each day. – Read More

Cable company Charter, which previously attempted to partner with behavioral advertising company NebuAd, still seems to want to enter the online ad business. – Read More