He also noted that concerns about user privacy and changes in device usage will likely be challenges to face in the short term. Big Data was the keyword for the day and the topic of the keynote presented by marketing optimization expert Bryan...
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...
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...
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...
The closing of certain services pales in comparison to new launches under Page; social/identity network Google+, the one universal privacy policy, and Search Plus Your World all came out in the year since he’s taken back the reins.
Markey has spoken out against Google before, most recently opposing Google's new privacy policy. Congressman and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) are calling for further investigations of the search giant.
Schmidt's Solution to Street View Privacy Concerns? Google escaped penalties associated with the Federal Communications Commission’s electronic eavesdropping law in the agency’s investigation of private user data collection through Street View...
Sure, some things might be related to adversarial IR, but ya know.just once in a while, it might be about something else - search quality, better spelling, personalization, sentiment, semantic markup, or even pressure from privacy concerns.
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?
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.
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...
Google was on the hot seat as online privacy concerns swirled in Washington, D.C.where the Data Privacy Day event was held last Thursday. If you are logged in, you can still edit or turn off your Search history, switch Gmail chat to 'off the record...
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...
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.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is considering filing an FTC complaint, even after two of the senators involved in the first subcommittee investigation suggested an FTC investigation last month.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) “… said his group is considering filing a letter with the FTC. Numerous methods of testing and data-modeling are...
The new changes to Google rel="author", rel="publisher", social relationships as a ranking factor, SSL search for keyword data, changes to the privacy policy to represent EU standards the list goes on and on are all seemingly unrelated, but are they?
These Flash-based cookies were blamed for a number of privacy concerns including cross-domain and cross-client visitor identification and re-spawning traditional cookies after being cleared from user browsers.
Favoring webmasters has the potential to hurt privacy, while favoring users could prevent sites from targeting effectively or meeting consumer needs. The amount of data being hidden thanks to Google's SSL search decision has been climbing steadily...
The point is that by creating a work-around that satisfies only AdWords advertisers, Google is appears to also be catering to its own interests in the marketplace, as opposed to solely being a champion for security and privacy of the user, as one...
