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  1. Is Google's Unified Privacy Policy Illegal in Europe?

    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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Facebook-Datalogix Partnership to Track Offline Purchases by 100 Million+ Households

    Facebook assures privacy watchdogs the user data will be anonymized via encryption and that no personal user information will be shared with Datalogix. However, privacy experts at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for...

  5. 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...

  6. Facebook Settles Privacy Lawsuit, Buys Facial Recognition Company Face.com

    Some European companies have already raised concerns about Facebook’s autotagging practice, citing concerns over user privacy. Database Driving Facial Recognition a Massive Risk: Privacy Commissioner In 2011, the Electronic Privacy Information...

  7. 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...

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

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

  9. 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...

  10. 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?