Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by Foundem, which has been working with Microsoft and the FairSearch players, for anti-competitive conduct.
The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the Article 29 group of which the ICO is a member.The ICO also confirmed that several other data protection authorities in Europe are also...
Changing of Google Privacy Policy from US to EU. So a year has come and gone in the NSTIC and the issue of privacy seems to still be at the forefront. Where one door is less safe than many (one access point vs.multiple log-ins), your privacy is...
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...
Ensure you’re doing your utmost to convey trust by including a no-nonsense privacy policy, clear contact us page, hours of operation, physical address and map locations, service level agreements (how long will it take to receive a call or email back?
The closing of certain services pales in comparison to new launches under Page; social/identity network Google+, the one universal privacy policy, and Search Plus Your World all came out in the year since he’s taken back the reins.
Changes to Google's privacy policy have many people rethinking the idea of "going Google. Privacy is a fundamental point in the Piwik project. Piwik respects privacy so much that there are built-in privacy settings that allow you to anonymize...
Privacy Policy/Privacy Services SEOs understand the importance of submitting a sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools; but in this Google Webmaster video Matt Cutts is explicit that an HTML sitemap for users will help with search rankings — both in...
Some of the best pages to tap for link equity are pages "off the beaten path," like company leaders, privacy policy, terms of service, contact us, etc. You can also leverage the blog to push equity and PageRank over to your sales or services pages...
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...
Additionally, Google’s newly implemented privacy policy combines user data across Google services and devices, moving us ever closer to Google’s serendiptious search and more integrated search, but one that doesn’t rely on the web indexing...
Our new Privacy Policy gets rid of those inconsistencies so we can make more of your information available to you when using Google. The new policy doesn't change any existing privacy settings or how any personal information is shared outside of...
The privacy policy change mainly affects users with a Google Account, and you can continue to use many of our services — including Search, Maps and YouTube — when you are logged out. Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts...
How many minutes did those same users spend on YouTube, Blogger, in Google Analytics, using Google’s core offering to search the web, or on one of the other 60 or so services to be combined under their new privacy policy?
The move will consolidate the privacy policy for all Google applications and services into a single agreement. No, this isn't about its app privacy policy or browser tracking, though lately it seems like you need a scorecard to keep track of all...
No one knew Google would one day amalgamate data across all their services by merging them all under one privacy policy. We should relax this policy a tad to allow setting 3rd party cookies when the 3rd party in question already has a cookie set.
Rachel Whetstone, Google senior vice president of communications and public policy, said in a statement that the code was used to provide services for users who had logged into their Google accounts. Google is speaking out in the wake of a report...
the start date of the project appears to be March 1, the same day Google's new privacy policy goes into effect. What we learn from you, and others like you, will help us improve Google products and services and make a better online experience for...
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...
Questions over Google’s new privacy policy continue despite their best efforts to quell fears. Should Google Bow to EU Pressure to Pause the New Privacy Policy Launch? The problem we seem to see over and over with privacy and other Internet-related...
