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  1. Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Resigns

    Whitten ascended to the position of privacy director in the wake of the furore created by revelations that it had been collecting private Wi-Fi data via Google's Street View cars. In 2010, Google was accused of harvesting private Wi-Fi data through...

  2. How the Gun Control Debate is Impacting Search Results

    Moreover, in November 2012, the keyword “obama gun control” had almost 50 million results, and as of December 2012 data now has jumped to 279 million. But since this only shows actual data, it may be beneficial to take a bit of a jump back...

  3. Google as Your Identity Provider: Where Are We Now?

    That you will be Jane Doe, but the IdP can verify you without you having to give away more than the most limited amounts of data. Not with an IdP, all your verified data is kept there, whether needed or not because there is a larger requirement here.

  4. Google Buys Coupon Platform Incentive Targeting, Which Owns Targeted Search Patent

    Some other exemplary applications of the techniques described herein can include, identifying website/e-commerce users by their behavior, identifying possible criminals or terrorists based on specific behaviors from a database of activities...

  5. Google Warns Secretive Government Group Could Kill Open Web

    The company recently disclosed that it had received some 20,000 requests for user data in the first six months of 2012, with the U.S.as the top applicant. In addition, ITU is pleased to note that private sector companies and civil society...

  6. Semantic Search in 2025

    Looking at the issue strictly from the standpoint of achieving a semantic search capability, it seemed that rather than trying to teach a computer how to think like a human, it would probably be much easier to teach humans how to present data in a...

  7. Government SEO is Broken

    The use of keyword-rich Meta data: Page title and meta description tags. The cost alone of managing this scale may be reason enough to consolidate and rationalize, but a hidden cost is the complexity imposed on citizens who need to navigate the...

  8. Facebook & Twitter Apps Exploited to Profit From Private Data

    Shopov published a post on Oct.titled, “I just bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries. Shopov claims to have purchased the data for $5 from a Facebook apps developer. According to Shopov, he returned the data file to Facebook and was...

  9. Obama vs. Romney: Search for Next President Reveals Astonishing Facts

    What Does the Search Data Tell Us? The data expresses evidence that some people misspelled the names of presidential candidates, and that we're more intrigued by the personal lives of the contenders rather than how they are going to run the country...

  10. Google Axes iGoogle, Chatback & Google Mini

    Users have until November 1, 2013, to export their data, but the mobile version will be retired July 31 of this month. Users will be able to access their former Google Videos in the YouTube video manager; all videos will be set to private as the...

  11. LinkedIn Hit With $5 Million Lawsuit Over Stolen Passwords

    Professional social network Linkedin faces a class action lawsuit from a user for failing to protect private data following a security breach that saw millions of its users' password compromised. When we asked it whether it was true, LinkedIn...

  12. Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests

    Every six months, Google releases information about government requests to remove content or access private user data as part of their Transparency Report. In addition, governments sent over 18,000 requests for access to the personal data of 28,562...