This settlement addresses privacy issues and protects the rights of people whose information was collected without their permission. We work hard to get privacy right at Google. Google has reached a settlement which would end the firm's long...
Google must respond to these requests in the correct manner, and that means respecting the rights of all parties, Drummond wrote. Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed...
By September 2011, Yelp was testifying against Googlein the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. There is a fundamental conflict between being a search provider and a content provider,” Consumer Watchdog Privacy...
While facial blurring is largely considered to be a tool for protecting freedom of speech and human rights, the technology has also been used as a measure for preserving privacy and anonymizing users whose images are captured in public places...
Google's Street View service has fallen under scrutiny in much of Europe, where privacy groups worry that the service is violating the rights of citizens by collecting images without permission. A Swiss court has relaxed the privacy and...
Specifically Gmail accounts of human rights activists. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) wanted to know more about Google's relationship with NSA. The Federal Appeals Court has upheld the National Security Agency's decision not to...
Any automated procedure will make mistakes and potentially restrict free speech," warned Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group. MPs on the joint committee investigating privacy and injunctions said they were unconvinced by...
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the New York Democrat expressed his concerns that privacy rights may be infringed as contact names, telephone numbers, and email addresses are acquired from devices without user permission.
Accountability: Consumers have a right to have personal data handled by companies with appropriate measures in place to assure they adhere to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. A new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights was also introduced today.
Despite vocal opposition from the ACLU, EFF, and at least 37 other human rights and privacy organizations (see their letter to the U.S. The Next Threat to Online Privacy and Freedom - Data Retention Despite the economic burden on ISPs, despite the...
If enacted, S.968 - Protect IP Act (PIPA) and HR.3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), would negatively affect all Internet-based businesses, traditional businesses that have Internet presences or divisions, marketers and advertisers, and all...
Meanwhile, Senator John Kerry, who introduced his own privacy bill along with Senator John McCain in April, called the settlement an FTC success, noting, "These priorities are consistent with what Senator McCain and I had in mind when we...
The Obama administration called for a "Privacy Bill of Rights," and over a dozen privacy-related bills were introduced in congress in just the first 10 months of 2011. The settlement comes in response to concerns over Facebook’s privacy controls...
They’ve been developing apps and securing programming rights for online shows to complement their offline offerings. They just might be successfully moving into Facebook’s “seamless sharing” territory, without the pesky third-party privacy concerns...
Did you know that because your car license is not in a place of expected privacy there are court cases where some members of law enforcement believe they have the right to put a GPS unit on your license plate to track you without a warrant...
So while assisting in the preservation of privacy rights on the one hand, they violate them with the other under a law created before the World Wide Web existed. The law under which this questionable seizure of private communications is permitted...
They have admin rights to it. When I wrote my last article, Being Bad For Great Justice: A New Privacy Scandal Rocks Second Life, and sent it upstairs to the folks that post it, I sent in a warning that things would, sooner or later, get ugly over...
Real ID systems should be of concern to anyone who believes in the Bill of Rights and our freedom of speech and to not incriminate ourselves – to live a life that isn’t monitored by entities, “private” or not.
They're also fashioning their personas after DC superheroes, whilst violating DC's IP rights, and they are well, well through the looking glass in terms of how seriously they take their roleplay. Further, it would appear that they are working in...
This is about our future, our privacy and our rights as users and owners. What You Lose: Privacy If you buy what Google's selling, you stand to lose power, privacy, control, and freedom. Maybe some of you probably don’t see anything wrong or care...
