More recently, they rolled all of their services into one with the amalgamation of all privacy policies for all Google services. The result: a more “functional and flexible version of Google+,” according to Google’s blog post.
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 are writing to you because we want to better understand the information collection and use policies and practices of apps for Apple's mobile devices with a social element. District Court for the Western District of Texas accusing 18 companies...
Companies in healthcare and insurance need to ensure that their technology infrastructure, record-keeping, and privacy policies are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
In response to the claims of unauthorized photo sharing, Google has said that it is re-evaluating its policies with regards to application permissions. We've always had policies in place to remove any apps on Android Market that improperly access...
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.
Or notifications or stories about privacy policies either, apparently. Google has collected the same data for years, and has given itself the ability to combine information with other Google services in its privacy policies dating back to 2005.
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...
The Federal Trade Commission has released the results of a staff report complaining that mobile applications for children lack privacy policies and disclosure. The report, Mobile Apps for Kids: Current Privacy Disclosures Are Disappointing, said...
EPIC alleges that the changes to Google’s privacy policies, which will allow Google to combine user data across all of its properties “without user consent,” violates a consent order Google signed with the FTC last year related to Google Buzz.
Additionally, the tool will scan developer accounts and flags developers who repeatedly offend security policies and privacy protections. Google has shed new light on Bouncer, a security system it credits with slowing the spread of malware on its...
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...
For example, if a user is signed in searching Google for cooking recipes, our current privacy policies wouldn’t let us recommend cooking videos when she visits YouTube based on her searches – even though she was signed into the same Google Account...
A group of lawmakers sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter requesting responses to several detailed questions about changes the company made to its privacy policies on January 24. Google last week announced that starting March 1, more than 60 privacy...
It wasn’t too long ago that the FTC said Google violated its privacy policies when it launched Google Buzz “by using information provided for Gmail for another purpose - social networking - without obtaining consumers’ permission in advance.
