Software must: be pre-approved by Google; offer one-click, complete uninstall; provide clear, full disclosure and transparency to people about what is being installed and what changes are being made to their devices; install itself on only one...
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. To date, they've done a pretty decent job of protecting privacy.
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...
We scrutinize the request carefully to make sure it satisfies the law and our policies. Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70...
Check your current content for items that don’t fit the branding guide – even pages like privacy and shipping policies. Normally, shipping policies are as staid and evergreen as you can get. Apply your branding to all your pages, like product...
The story sent app providers scrambling to define their privacy policies regarding user data. Some of these terms will become part of popular culture, while others don’t even make sense! But the sooner we all get on board with more correct, local...
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...
