I imagine there must be some obscure cases in which more than six levels of separation apply, but it would almost certainly require that at least one party be a member of a reclusive aboriginal tribe.
Google Crashes Facebook Home’s Easy Updating Party, Now Requires All Play Apps To Be Updated Through The Play Store – TechCrunch"An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other...
Do the most to protect your ability to collect anonymous user data by enabling first-party cookies for web analytics software (where available). Various legislative committees and governing bodies are interested in protecting the public’s privacy...
Reviews: Reviews are great, third party review platforms like TrustPilot are excellent but video is best. Shorten Privacy Policy and Small Print: Make the small print useful and human friendly. In many respects conversion rate optimization requires...
Despite this, Google's decision to push through with the changes comes just two days after French data protection regulators, leading the pan-European Article 29 Working Party's investigation on the proposals, declared them unlawful and asked the...
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin from the Commission Nationale de L'informatique et Des Libertes (CNIL), which is leading the Article 29 Working Party's investigation into Google's changes, said Google’s new privacy policies don’t conform to European laws.
Shortly after that, we heard the new privacy policy announcement; all user data from all Google services will be combined in order to show more relevant search results and ads. Amalgamating the data available from all services with their new...
This improved functionality sacrificed some privacy; there was really no clear way for the average user to know that when they clicked the Like button, for example, they were actually making Facebook a first party as far as cookies go.
In the letter to Article 29 Working Party chairman Jacob Kohnstamm, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer notes they have not changed their approach to privacy and that they “met with many of your counterparts in other countries in the...
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?
The SEO community has already mounted vehement responses calling the privacy claim a smokescreen for Google to quietly kill off third party ad networks and retargeting companies. Encrypting referrer data with SSL makes it harder to spy on people's...
Another area of domination for Facebook is third-party logins: it still remains number one, except for news, ReadWriteWeb reported, citing data from Gigya, a provider of tools for social sharing and third-party logins.
The Yahoo Pulse privacy dashboard yet has to prove its worth in my view but in any case, Yahoo is confident and hinted at more such integrations of third-party platforms in the future, quoting Simms in a company statement: "Starting with Facebook...
This time, it is Zuckerberg's turn to go through the drill and apologize to Facebook users for two main reasons: privacy settings and personal data transfer to marketers. Google had responded in a statement that the company "doesn't seek in any way...
The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party of the European Commission has informed Google that keeping unblurred photos for more than a year is not ok. For privacy reasons, Google will blur portions of their Street View photos.
Others see it as a gross invasion of privacy. Come To IM Charity Party During SES NY Posted by Frank Watson Mar 17, 2009 There will be a great charity event on Monday night March 23rd during SES NY. Hitwise has released a report with data that...
In April, Article 29 Data Protection Working Party called for search engines to set their data retention at 6 months. On another privacy front, Google is addressing concerns about Google Suggest. Do you feel better about privacy?
In the past, when we found applications passing user data to another party (for instance, to ad networks for the purpose of targeting), we suspended those applications and worked with those developers to ensure they respect user privacy.
While battles over search territory are being waged around the world, discussions of data ownership and third-party unbiased management seem to get swept into quicksand. Privacy and data ownership were big in the early parts of merger discussions...
Now I'm not suggesting the likelihood of anything improper going on with private data from huge, reputable companies such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo (all of whom take privacy very seriously). Doesn't this mean that, given that you'll accept the...
