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  1. Google, Twitter, LinkedIn Earn Top Ratings on Data Privacy

    We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...

  2. 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! Google gets consumer service ultimatum from German consumer groups – PCWorldGoogle...

  3. 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.

  4. 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. Fornasero's reference to Section 2709 refers to the ability of the...

  5. 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. Google was taken to task over its decision to transplant Gmail user information to Buzz without their...

  6. 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. Pros: The whole process happens in about 300 milliseconds and is transparent to the user.

  7. 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...

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

    The webmasters in question had a false sense of security (and empowerment). The content didn’t answer any questions, solve any problems, or provide any additional value for the user. The poor SEO tactics actually worked for a period of time until...

  9. 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...

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

    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.

  11. 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. Yesterday, we reported that a blogger claimed to have purchased a list of over one million Facebook user emails, complete with full...

  12. 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. According to Shopov, he returned the data file to Facebook and was...

  13. Facebook-Datalogix Partnership to Track Offline Purchases by 100 Million+ Households

    Apparently Facebook also sent in a privacy and security auditor to assess this issue, and was satisfied with the results. Facebook assures privacy watchdogs the user data will be anonymized via encryption and that no personal user information will...