No wonder 98% of all small businesses have no protection against hackers whatsoever. That's why I created the ‘Hands-off, No-brainer, Protect Your Vital Data from Criminal Scumbags' program for small businesses.
Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. In a statement, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information...
The move comes after French data protection regulatory CNIL confirmed that Google had made no attempt to meets it concerns over its renewed privacy policies, first unveiled in March 2012, despite its numerous complaints that the changes were...
It informs apps developers that the FTC is launching non-public investigations into whether some "entities in the mobile app marketplace" are violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Most apps failed to provide any information about...
Brand Protection: Branded SEM allows you to reduce the possibility of a competitor or another site capturing the visitor and creating a negative brand experience (BBB, Ripoff Report), or going to a competitor (competitive branded bidding and...
I've seen websites that were built out on a staging environment by their design agency, but lacked password protection. After all, you can see actual impressions and historical data on how these words have performed in terms of click-through rate...
barackobama.com is not owned by the government as some may believe, but rather it is registered via GoDaddy with Privacy Protection service, and I highly doubt that the United States government would need privacy protection) This leads us to a...
We are also in touch with other data protection authorities in the EU and elsewhere through the Article 29 Working Party and the GPEN network to coordinate the response to this development. Google has admitted it has discovered more WiFi data...
For additional information about brand protection and statutory marketing rights, download the brand protection pdf on the London2012.com site. When signing up for the Olympic Hub site for example, users are able to sign in using Facebook or...
The Spanish Data Protection Authority asked Google to remove 270 search results linking to blogs and websites that mentioned public figures. In addition, governments sent over 18,000 requests for access to the personal data of 28,562 users worldwide.
Shortly after, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information called on Facebook to delete the feature that recognizes user faces in images and prompts friends to tag them. Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to...
However, if the data your site collects is sensitive (e.g.health information), then explicit consent could be required (and other data protection laws might apply too). This was the date on which the EU Privacy Directive, which had become UK law...
While Google’s program focused more on customer service, purchase protection, and shipping, KikScore offered a more holistic look at the business as a whole. KikScore enables online small businesses to take information and reputational data about...
At the end of the day it is the unsuspecting that need protection. For the record, the data seems inconclusive still as I talked to Dan and there were some major site changes that would certainly mess with the data being reported by the folks who...
Attorneys General and other privacy watchdogs who claimed the changes may breach data protection laws. Google is to make it easier for users to track their use of its services by providing a monthly activity dashboard.
Spam: Stronger protection. Related Searches, Site Search, Spam new data source” that will help generate the “Searches related to” section. Google said it is now relying more on its main search result rankings as a signal to trigger local universal...
Google yesterday moved forward with its planned changes to its privacy policies despite some objections from consumer groups, European regulators, and 36 U.S.attorney general concerned the changes don't conform to data protection rules.
We are confident that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all European data protection laws and principles," Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, wrote in response to CNIL.
The W3C Tracking Protection Working Group is trying to establish standard definitions and policies around cookies and user tracking. Google doesn’t actually need users to participate in their social network to gather the data all they need to...
We are aware of this issue and are continuing to make enquiries with Google to ensure that they comply with the Data Protection Act and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations," ICO said in a statement to V3.
