Google was taken to task over its decision to transplant Gmail user information to Buzz without their consent. Google's privacy director has resigned from her position after nearly 10 years of service at the search giant.
As a result, the FTC announced that “Google has agreed to a Consent Order that prohibits it from seeking injunctions against a willing licensee, either in federal court or at the ITC, to block the use of any standard-essential patents that the...
Google Play, YouTube police (YouTube) content before it is put online as long as it informs users that posting television shows, music videos, concerts or advertisements without prior consent of the owner is not allowed.
Google maintains that it hasn't broken any antitrust laws and is trying to make sure that any agreement with the FTC won't involve a consent decree. To cover itself, the FTC might ask Google to agree to a consent decree, but Google might prefer to...
In light of the recent consent order with Facebook, which resulted from the complaint brought by EPIC and other consumer privacy groups, it is critically important for the FTC to look closely at this proposal and to determine whether the company...
The FTC is focused on a 2009 help center page published more than two years before our consent decree, and a year before Apple changed its cookie-handling policy," according to a statement from Google, although the company was unable to comment on...
Consent Doesn't Mean an Explicit "Yes" Over time consensus grew – consent meant a drop-down message, pop up or similar mechanism that actively asked consumers to explicitly say "yes" to tracking. Broadly speaking, if a piece of technology tracks...
Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube) content before it is put online as long as it informs users that posting television shows, music videos, concerts or advertisements without prior consent of the owner is not allowed.
Pool proprietary data from your organization's niche, industry, or even customer database (get customer consent and anonymize the data, of course) and compile it into a free report, like the HubSpot State of Inbound Marketing Report or the...
Last month, a developer of applications ('apps') for Apple's mobile devices discovered that the social networking app Path was accessing and collecting the contents of his iPhone address book without having asked for his consent," read the...
The issue revolves around a permissions loophole that grants third-party app developers the ability to copy users photos to a remote server without notice, as long as a user given the app consent to access the internet.
EPIC sued Google earlier this month, claiming Google’s new policy violated a consent order Google signed with the FTC last year. Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being...
Opponents, meanwhile, have charged that the move will violate the users' previous wishes and consent for how their data is shared. A group of U.S.state attorneys are speaking out against Google's planned overhaul to its privacy settings.
The issue is particularly interesting from a UK and European perspective as it comes weeks before the so-called Cookie Law comes in to force in May, which will force firms to obtain the consent of users before deploying cookies on browsers.
In August 2011, W3 Innovations, LLC, doing business under the less-than-encouraging moniker Broken Thumbs, settled with the FTC on charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC’s COPPA Rule by illegally...
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.
We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent. Instead of having horrible, evil products like Gmail, Google’s search engine, Google Docs, or Google’s Chrome browser...
Google also won't "combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent. A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March. The big change: Google clearly states that it will...
The cookie law is an amendment to the ePrivacy Directive which came into force on 26 May, and requires web site owners using cookies to achieve explicit consent from visitors to install and run cookies on their systems.
The FTC order calls for audits of Facebook's privacy program for the next 20 years, and requires the company to obtain express affirmative consent from users before altering their privacy preferences in the future.
