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  1. Weekly Rundown: Lost Google Image Search Traffic, Facebook Search Ads & More

    Security certificate problem trips up Bing Web site – CNETTrying to use Bing brought up the following warning: "This is probably not the site you are looking for! Apple records and keeps users' Siri queries for up to 2 years – Los Angeles TimesData...

  2. Top 5 Reasons Against Implementing a Tag Management Solution

    Your first consideration should always be information security and service-level agreements. If you think about it, any externally-referenced code is susceptible to security vulnerabilities including some analytics software solutions themselves.

  3. Google Challenges U.S. National Security Letter in Court

    Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U.S.government, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acknowledging it is one of the first firms to do so. At the time the company said it was working with the authorities to...

  4. Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Resigns

    The privacy and security teams, and everyone else at Google, will continue this hard work to ensure that our users' data is kept safe and secure. Whitten ascended to the position of privacy director in the wake of the furore created by revelations...

  5. Pros & Cons of the Top Mobile App Tracking Methods

    Cookies on a mobile device are the equivalent of their counterparts in desktop browsers, though they are more limited by default mobile device security settings. OpenUDID is a free, open source UDID initiative that uses a copy-and-paste feature in...

  6. Google Provides Vague Range of How Often FBI Seeks User Data

    Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...

  7. The Misleading Sinister Surge in Traffic Before Google Panda & Penguin Struck

    The webmasters in question had a false sense of security (and empowerment). The poor SEO tactics actually worked for a period of time until enough data was available, and until Google rolled out the next algorithm update.

  8. Google Transparency Report Adds Details on Subpoenas, Search Warrants, Court Orders

    Google's Richard Slagado, Legal Director, Law Enforcement and Information Security, stated they will release those numbers in a separate report from here forward and to "stay tuned" for those data. Today, Google released new data in the...

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

    Security! Because you don’t have to give these websites you interact with any information, your IdP will vouch for your name, address, age, social security, credit card and anything else that your IdP holds in their “verified identity” account of you.

  10. Facebook Claims Site Scraper Responsible for Leak of 1 Million User Emails

    We have dedicated security engineers and teams that look into and take aggressive action on reports just like these. We will continue investigating the source of the list and whether the affected users have been notified of the leak of their...

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

    A Facebook spokesperson told Search Engine Watch: “We have dedicated security engineers and teams that look into and take aggressive action on reports like those raised here. Shopov published a post on Oct.titled, “I just bought more than 1 million...