Experts say that it's important for parents to proactively monitor their kids' online behavior.
Some Sprint employees revealed their social-media blind spot when called out for inappropriate online behavior.
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ISPs are starting to assume a pseudo-governmental role in monitoring and policing our online behavior.
If you want more information, join the live chats or take part in the online behavior seminars.
Seventy percent of teens "hide their online behavior" from parents, according to the report, which was released Monday.
Others struggle with artificial intelligence algorithms that mine online behavior to serve up different fare to different seekers.
It then compares those findings with data advertisers give Tapad about the online behavior of prospective and existing customers.
Facebook, for example, correlates your online behavior with your purchasing habits offline.
The rise of social networks is also making it easier to tie people's real identities to their online behavior.
These buttons and related code give social networks, which often know people's real names, an unprecedented overview of online behavior.
But if online behavior data doesn't function as a perfect economic indicator, it does make a fascinating mirror for the human psyche.
Of the 22 sites, most did not contain any ads targeted to consumers based on their online behavior, according to the January study .
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Steinberg says it's important that parents are educated about what's out there and are on top of their kids' online behavior without getting totally crazy.
The systems are used mainly to secure sensitive data and comply with government rules, but they also generate lots of personal information on employees' online behavior.
They track your online behavior and collate it into a unified profile, which follows you around the web, advising marketers about what you might be likely to purchase.
Cooper worries that DoubleClick's massive amount of private data about users' online behavior could be linked to Google's reams of search data to create detailed profiles of individuals.
Instead of submitting users to a test, the Atlanta-based company's technology plugs into Web sites and invisibly analyzes users' online behavior to determine who's a human and who's a bot.
"opt-in": Should users have to agree to have their online behavior data collected, or should sites legally be allowed to track their behavior by default, with an option to stop that collection upon request?
And its sales people monitor how these downloading companies are using the software and only call on the companies when it looks like they are getting serious about using it based on their online behavior.
Today, as some of the best minds of Silicon Valley crunch enormous volumes of data being mined by Google and others to monitor the online behavior of individual users, advertising has entered a new age.
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Increasingly, information comes from people's online behavior.
The Commerce Department recently called for a privacy bill of rights for Internet users, while the Federal Trade Commission has proposed a do-not-track tool that would let users stop or restrict advertisers from studying their online behavior to target ads.
There are two main foes in consumers' ongoing struggle to preserve their online privacy: companies that collect data and track people's online behavior to sell them things, and law enforcement agencies that collect data and track people to investigate crimes.
Many children are delighted to see their parents take an interest in their hobbies and activities, and making a family affair of online game playing gives you the opportunity to monitor their online behavior while maximizing the educational potential of a game.
China has a unique culture, rising income levels, a developed internet, and established online spending behavior.
Some in the industry view the deal as a way for Facebook to elevate online social behavior closer to search as an indicator of consumer interest and purchase intent.
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The company recently began a trial in Brazil to gauge online user behavior so that it might better tailor its platform to user needs in that country, he said.
Perhaps surprisingly, respondents have had largely positive experiences with their bankers or card providers when they have been fraud victims, and they say they do not change their online banking behavior once they have been a fraud victim.
Stewart cautions that attributing any bad behavior online is never a sure thing.
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