In a statement, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information accepted that Google had made a mistake but said that the firm could not be allowed to get away with it. Google did cooperate in the clarification thereof and...
Google's privacy policies are under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to see if they are illegal under UK law. The move comes after French data protection regulatory CNIL confirmed that Google had made no attempt to meets...
This has led to police investigations and action by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) against the firm, although no fines or legal action has ever been taken. Google had previously agreed to delete all the data it had gathered in the UK...
Database Driving Facial Recognition a Massive Risk: Privacy Commissioner Shortly after, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information called on Facebook to delete the feature that recognizes user faces in images and...
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has confirmed it is in discussion with Google to ensure the search giant is complying with all necessary UK data laws following the reports about privacy settings being bypassed.
Facebook should ensure that any data it collects should be used in the manner that its users expect," a spokesman for the UK Information Commissioner said. Next week the European Commission, The UK Information Commissioner and others will meet to...
Many of the complaints they’ve filed with the Irish Data Protection Commissioner* involve Facebook’s continued storage of data users believe they have deleted. But the extent to which they collect and keep information users may not even realize...
Joaquin Almunia, a European Competition Commissioner, told Reuters, "We are trying to determine whether the company holds a dominant position in Internet search. After long discussions with Hamburg privacy regulators regarding Google Analytics...
ULD Commissioner Thilo Weichert for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, said "the social network's plugin, which allows Internet users to express their appreciation of something online, illegally puts together a profile of their Web...
Canada's privacy commissioner has asked Google to undergo an independent, third-party audit of its policies after her office found the Internet giant's lack of privacy programs led it to wrongly collect and hold confidential information of...
We must clearly say: What Google offers is not enough," Johannes Caspar, commissioner for data protection in Hamburg where Google Germany is based, was quoted as saying in a local paper earlier this week.
Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, in referring to the e-mails, passwords, and other data Google inadvertently collected off unencrypted wireless networks with its Street View cars (last month called a "gross invasion of privacy").
Canada's privacy commissioner declared that Google violated the country's privacy laws by collecting WiFi data containing complete e-mails, e-mail addresses, user names and passwords, names and residential telephone numbers and addresses, and...
Canada's privacy commissioner declared that Google violated the country's privacy laws, which followed news that Spain's Data Protection Agency plans to fine Google between due to the Wi-Fi data Google collected with its Street View cars.
Canada's privacy commissioner yesterday declared that Google violated the country's privacy laws, which followed news that Spain's Data Protection Agency plans to fine Google between €60,000 and €600,000 ($84,000 and $840,000) per offense due to...
Facebook has been working with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to come up with solutions to concerns that the office has. Facebook will work to encourage users to review their privacy settings.
Q&A: Federal privacy commissioner talks spam. Given current privacy concerns, it's interesting that the site does not require that you state a permissible use even though it draws information from public records.
