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. It's a trade-off.
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...
Or notifications or stories about privacy policies either, apparently. But Google’s users don’t read privacy policies. Google has collected the same data for years, and has given itself the ability to combine information with other Google services...
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...
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.
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...
Legislators, privacy advocates, and the Federal Trade Commission have suggested that companies like Google simplify their privacy policies for years. A group of lawmakers sent Google CEO Larry Page a letter requesting responses to several detailed...
In his lengthy post, Zuckerberg said his firm has created two new positions within Facebook to "further strengthen the processes that ensure that privacy control is built into our products and policies.
In additional to the third-party audits, Google will have to: show privacy warning in a more prominent position, especially when user information is shared without the user specifically requesting such sharing; simplify or provide easier access to...
Article 29 Working Party investigation, Google has changed its data retention policies again. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick
You agree to not use the Service to: (a) upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or...
That technique is apparently against Google's spam policies. Search engines should set standards and adhere to them, say webmasters, advertisers and a senior attorney for the Federal Trade Commission.
