Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the New York Democrat expressed his concerns that privacy rights may be infringed as contact names, telephone numbers, and email addresses are acquired from devices without user permission.
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin from the Commission Nationale de L'informatique et Des Libertes (CNIL), which is leading the Article 29 Working Party's investigation into Google's changes, said Google’s new privacy policies don’t conform to European laws.
Less than a week after a Federal Trade Commission report condemned the lack of privacy policies and disclosures from mobile application providers, Google, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Research In Motion (RIM) and Amazon have agreed to improve privacy...
The Federal Trade Commission has released the results of a staff report complaining that mobile applications for children lack privacy policies and disclosure. The report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing, said...
EPIC alleges that the changes to Google’s privacy policies, which will allow Google to combine user data across all of its properties “without user consent,” violates a consent order Google signed with the FTC last year related to Google Buzz.
Legislators, privacy advocates, and the Federal Trade Commission have suggested that companies like Google simplify their privacy policies for years. A group of lawmakers sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter requesting responses to several detailed...
Google is reducing more than 60 privacy policies for all its products (e.g.search, YouTube, Gmail, Calendar), down to one main “simplified” easy-to-read policy as of March 1. You can view the new privacy policy and terms and conditions on Google’s...
In his lengthy post, Zuckerberg said his firm has created two new positions within Facebook to "further strengthen the processes that ensure that privacy control is built into our products and policies.
In additional to the third-party audits, Google will have to: show privacy warning in a more prominent position, especially when user information is shared without the user specifically requesting such sharing; simplify or provide easier access to...
The new policies and the end of the ban represent the first accord between Google and the German government on this topic. The European Commission is still determining Google’s degree of dominance, Google is providing an WiFi location opt-out...
Yahoo, Microsoft To Change Privacy PoliciesPressure from the European Union apparently has Yahoo and Microsoft changing their privacy policies. Suing Google Over Misleading ConductThe ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) is taking...
Yahoo, Microsoft To Change Privacy PoliciesPressure from the European Union apparently has Yahoo and Microsoft changing their privacy policies. Suing Google Over Misleading ConductThe ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) is taking...
Article 29 Working Party investigation, Google has changed its data retention policies again. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick
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That technique is apparently against Google's spam policies. Search engines should set standards and adhere to them, say webmasters, advertisers and a senior attorney for the Federal Trade Commission.
