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  1. 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...

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

    Further complicating matters are the ongoing changes and privacy concerns, making it difficult for marketers to choose a tracking technology with confidence. Due to privacy concerns, Apple depreciated access to UDID in applications, resulting in...

  3. Supercharge Your Conversion Rate Optimization: How to Structure CRO & Win

    Shorten Privacy Policy and Small Print: Make the small print useful and human friendly. In many respects conversion rate optimization requires as much specialist skill as technical search engine optimization (SEO); with an acute understanding of...

  4. Cookie Crunch: Complying with the EU ePrivacy Directive in the UK

    The need to comply with the Directive on UK websites – and across the EU – won't go away as browser publishers address privacy concerns at a software level. While U.S.digital industry commentators were debating the "Do Not Track" initiative in May...

  5. Congressman, EPIC Push for Larger Google Street View Investigation

    Markey has spoken out against Google before, most recently opposing Google's new privacy policy. Schmidt's Solution to Street View Privacy Concerns? Congressman and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) are calling for further...

  6. Congress Checks Into Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare iOS App Data Collection

    District Court for the Western District of Texas accusing 18 companies, including Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Yelp, of distributing privacy-invading mobile apps. Major technology brands behind more than 30 of the top Apple iPhone applications...

  7. Search Engine Users Dislike Personalized Search But Like the Results

    Without downplaying any of the privacy concerns, which are very real and warrant a closer look at search engine privacy practices, how much stock can we put into user sentiment that personalization is bad when our actions say it is just oh so good?

  8. Last Ditch Efforts to Halt New Google Privacy Policy

    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.

  9. Google Won't Pause New Privacy Policy - Should They Have To?

    Questions over Google’s new privacy policy continue despite their best efforts to quell fears. In the letter to Article 29 Working Party chairman Jacob Kohnstamm, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer notes they have not changed their...

  10. New Google Privacy Policy Combines User Data From All Google Services

    At a time when the European Commission is proposing to significantly enhance the protection of consumer privacy, Google need to be absolutely transparent about the data they capture and how it is used," Nick Pickles, director of privacy and civil...

  11. New Gmail, YouTube, Blogger Users Join Google+ by Default

    For their part, EFF's senior lawyer Lee Tien offered that the government would need new privacy laws or regulations to prohibit identity verifiers from selling user data or sharing it with law enforcement officials without a warrant.