Schmidt also mentioned that a small army of elves will follow all bowlers around, keeping detailed logs on their every gesture, word, and thought. For your privacy, your score will appear as (not provided) for you and anyone else viewing your game.
In the NSTIC world, that data is all held in one or a few Identity Provider databases with all your online activities of ANY SITE that participates in the NSTIC online authentication system and maybe even outside of that (have you heard of the...
While Yahoo recently announced plans to join Google and Bing in retaining search logs for 18 months, Blekko has gone in the opposite direction, announcing that searches conducted on Blekko and other personal information such as IP addresses will...
Privacy Not as Important to Yahoo Anymore, Will Keep Search Logs for 18 Months by Danny Goodwin Yahoo, which announced plans to anonymize search logs, page views, page clicks, ad views, and ad click data it collected after 90 days in 2008, is...
Yahoo, which announced plans to anonymize search logs, page views, page clicks, ad views, and ad click data it collected after 90 days in 2008, is reversing course and plans to begin storing search logs for 18 months -- as well as potentially...
Now every time someone logs into your WordPress website to post a comment, using their Twitter account for authentication, 200 personal messages hidden inside their Twitter inbox are getting e-mailed to you.
At least four times, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, including tapping into Google Voice call logs and accessing chat transcripts and contact lists. David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly...
It is also worth noting that if you are logged in to your Google account searches you make will still show up in your web history, as that data is compiled against Google's own webserver logs, rather than a cookie on your site.
The data includes search logs, page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks. Personally, I wish the search engines would do a better job of informing the public about how their data collection really isn't the privacy issue that so many make it...
And as John Paczkowski points out at AllThingsD, the link just happened to go up just after a judge ruled that Google has to hand over YouTube user logs in a suit brought against it by Viacom. Google: A Clear & Present Danger to Corporate Data Privacy
Varian suggests readers "Watch our videos to see exactly what data we store in our logs. Varian explains that Web search algorithms are improved by the "wisdom of the crowds" drawn from the "logs of billions of previous search queries.
Instead of the 18-24 months that it announced in March as the cut-off for keeping server logs, Google will now anonymize its search server logs after 18 months, according to a post on the Google Blog by Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy...
By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we're striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google's services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices," writes...
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, But They Hesitate from the New When the AOL privacy case broke earlier this month, I wrote about how the intention of releasing the data was honorable despite the ineptness of how it was done.
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, But They Hesitate from the New York Times covers this in more detail, about how the existing data sets out there are nearly 10 years old. effectively does over the same survey of how long data is kept that News...
Google says they have seen some reports that show "1.5 times the number of clicks in our logs," the reason? Today's search podcast covers AOL's release of search records and the ensuing privacy crisis that followed; Google's support for site...
PDF) asks for the FTC to: order AOL to refrain from collecting or storing logs of its users' search activity except where necessary incident to the rendition of AOL's services or the protection of AOL rights and property, and to refrain in any...
But most search behavior studies outside of the search engines have depended on ancient search logs from places like Excite from back in 2001 or so. AOL says the release of the data wasn't properly vetted for privacy issues and that the release...
Techmeme is reporting a huge amount of concern over AOL releasing, then pulling, search logs done by users over three months. But most search behavior studies outside of the search engines have depended on ancient search logs from places like...
NOT have to provide the DOJ with query logs. Now it has a court backing up the idea that query logs are private. From my reading of the ruling (PDF format), the judge found that the possible concerns over privacy outweighed the concerns that...
