What We're Reading 7/12/2010
Reuters: Twitter settles privacy charges with U.S.
Microblogging service Twitter has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over charges it put its customers privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information.
Environmental Leader: Survey Finds Consumers Still Buying ‘Green’ Products
U.S. consumers are buying the same or more environmentally responsible products, regardless of region, age, gender or state of the economy, according to a second annual survey commissioned by SCA and conducted by Harris Interactive.
Let the online goods flow freely, or at least more freely.
That was the message Thursday from the Hill, where Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) have introduced a bill that prohibits state and local duplicative taxation of Internet transactions. Boucher is chair of the House Communications Subcommittee, while Smith is the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
Environmental Leader: Online Database to Compare Ecolabels
A new online database created by World Resources Institute (WRI) and Big Room Inc. will allow companies and consumers to compare claims between different environmental certifications for food and consumer products, according to a press release.
LA Times: Wrigley agrees to settle lawsuit over ads for Eclipse gum
Chewing gum maker W.M. Wrigley Jr. has agreed to pay as much as $7 million and change how it markets and labels its Eclipse gum to settle a lawsuit that alleged its ads were misleading, attorneys for the plaintiffs said Tuesday.
