With no regulations to set and enforce acceptable use policies of my data, I don't feel inclined to just trust a multi-billion dollar company to not use my data to make more billions. But by that time, there was enough discussion around the real...
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...
The new service is launching less than a month after Google moved forward with changes to its privacy policies, condensing more than 60 separate policies down to one all-encompassing policy. Attorneys General and other privacy watchdogs who claimed...
We’ve always had policies in place to remove any apps on Android Market that improperly access your data. Google has already come in for widespread criticism this week for pushing ahead with changes to its privacy policy.
Google yesterday moved forward with its planned changes to its privacy policies despite some objections from consumer groups, European regulators, and 36 U.S.attorney general concerned the changes don't conform to data protection rules.
Meanwhile in the UK, only 12 percent of Google users have bothered to read the updated privacy policy, according to a YouGov/Big Brother Watch survey, while 65 percent weren’t aware the change starts this week, and 47 percent were unaware of any...
The W3C Tracking Protection Working Group is trying to establish standard definitions and policies around cookies and user tracking. How many minutes did those same users spend on YouTube, Blogger, in Google Analytics, using Google’s core offering...
The National Association of Attorneys General said in an open letter to Google CEO Larry Page stating that the group had "strong concerns" with the the way Google plans to consolidate its multiple privacy policies into one single agreement.
Less than a week after a Federal Trade Commission report condemned the lack of privacy policies and disclosures from mobile application providers, Google, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Research In Motion (RIM) and Amazon have agreed to improve privacy...
This is an incredibly important distinction, especially in light of Google’s plan to amalgamate their privacy policies and pool data across all services. No one knew Google would one day amalgamate data across all their services by merging them all...
If I don't turn on a TPL or change any privacy settings, then third-party cookies might be blocked depending on their P3P compact policies,” she wrote. A 2010 research report indicated that over 11,000 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies...
Google announced plans to consolidate more than 60 policies into one “simplified” easy-to-read privacy policy, that Google said “makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you've provided from one service with information...
As a followup to their hysterically paranoid Glenn Beckian post focusing on the lack of opt out for a company-wide privacy policy (one that is largely similar to the policies you’ll find at giant companies like say, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft...
Kashmir Hill of Forbes has created the below video, fittingly titled “Google’s Privacy Policy Change Is Freaking Me Out” featuring two users discussing Google’s privacy policies. It all started with a post on the Google Public Policy Blog yesterday...
Google last week announced that starting March 1, more than 60 privacy policies associated with its various platforms and services will be boiled down to one simpler policy. A group of lawmakers sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter requesting...
Google is reducing more than 60 privacy policies for all its products (e.g.search, YouTube, Gmail, Calendar), down to one main “simplified” easy-to-read policy as of March 1. You can view the new privacy policy and terms and conditions on Google’s...
Google, if you want to truly put the user first, explain the OpenID and Identity Provider programs in your Good to Know online safety lessons, in your user policies, and on sign-up. But you won’t find any mention of the Google+ Identity Project in...
In additional to the third-party audits, Google will have to: show privacy warning in a more prominent position, especially when user information is shared without the user specifically requesting such sharing; simplify or provide easier access to...
The new policies and the end of the ban represent the first accord between Google and the German government on this topic. German website owners can use Analytics immediately, but must agree to Google’s updated terms, update their own privacy...
Regarding countries like Iran and Syria, people there have no expectation of privacy anyway due to their government's own policies… He also said the internet would be better if we knew you were a real person rather than a dog or a fake person.
