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  1. Weekly Rundown: Lost Google Image Search Traffic, Facebook Search Ads & More

    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...

  2. Google Challenges U.S. National Security Letter in Court

    At the time the company said it was working with the authorities to improve transparency around the subject, but according to court filings it is also fighting against handing over users' data. Fornasero's reference to Section 2709 refers to the...

  3. Google Provides Vague Range of How Often FBI Seeks User Data

    Google receives thousands of requests from law enforcement authorities to hand over user data, and while the firm was one of the first to publish transparency reports, it took until today for Google to work out a way to publish statistics about...

  4. Google Transparency Report Adds Details on Subpoenas, Search Warrants, Court Orders

    Today, Google released new data in the Transparency Report, showing user data requests received, through which means, and for how many of those requests data was produced and presumably released to the requesting party.

  5. Government SEO is Broken

    Improving Transparency and Accessibility to Government Services with SEO Direct access to government services and information via search is in many ways an optimal user experience. Search engines are often the first step in the user experience, the...

  6. Facebook Ads 80% Bot Claim, Examined! Why You Shouldn’t Lose Faith Just Yet

    We appreciated the transparency, but as a result, the frenzy surged on. We suggest that Facebook offer Facebook Ads customers greater transparency as to the process and a dedicated method to get refunded for verifiable bot analytics.

  7. Google Reveals More Government Search Censorship Requests

    Every six months, Google releases information about government requests to remove content or access private user data as part of their Transparency Report. Google found that their videos did violate YouTube’s Community Guidelines and as a result...

  8. How Big Data is Fundamentally Changing Local Search

    A second – the growing embrace of openness and transparency by organizations and institutions – presents yet another possibility. Drawing upon the massive corpus of user data collected via Chrome, Google+ and DoubleClick (just to name a few...

  9. Google Copyright URL Removal Requests Top 1.2 Million

    In 2011, Google added new features to its transparency reports, later adding user data requests. When something gets in the way of the free flow of information, we believe there should be transparency around what that block might be," said Google...