On the web analytics side, unique visitors are tied to individual or server IP addresses; whereas, on the mobile side you can talk about sessions, but it's almost impossible to get to visitors because there's a lot of people that start on mobile...
Server location (through IP address of server). For localized URLs it best to utilize subdirectories whenever possible, and only use subdomains when there is no other option, as subdomains require significantly more configuration including DNS, Ip...
The ICO said it now believes information relating to IP addresses, telephone numbers, email messages, instant messages and their content, login credentials, and information relating to the use of online dating and pornographic sites were all...
The vast majority of IP addresses in use today conform to Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and this is the standard that has been widely used on the Internet as most of us know it. On IPv4 connections, Baidu keeps logs user’s IP address and...
Piwik respects privacy so much that there are built-in privacy settings that allow you to anonymize visitor IP addresses and even delete raw visitor data – while still keeping your reports archived in a manner where you can still filter them.
They both want users on their service active engaging in ways we wouldn’t have dreamed possible a few years ago, leaving IP addresses, usernames, GPS coordinates, personal preferences, shopping habits, and more on the table.
Paid +1’s may not be as easily tracked to bad IP addresses, except where bots are run with multiple Google accounts from the same IP, or one person is seen doing a lot of them. Google has a ton of user data from Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Docs...
While Yahoo recently announced plans to join Google and Bing in retaining search logs for 18 months, Blekko has gone in the opposite direction, announcing that searches conducted on Blekko and other personal information such as IP addresses will...
WhoLinksToMe: Produces various detailed backlink reports with views by link, anchor text, country, IP, and more. A note about some tools I won't cover: tools that scrape SERPs for sites and automatically extract email addresses and send blast mass...
That sentence fragment contains the entire controversy.zFire keeps claiming that IP addresses aren't personal data. That sound you just heard was anyone who knows how IP addresses work facepalming themselves so hard something cracked.
Google's policy is to anonymize IP addresses after nine months and cookies after 18 months, according to a spokesperson quoted by Mediapost. This compares to a period of only six months of storage for Bing IP addresses.
Later, Viacom agrees to let Google scramble user IDs and IP addresses. A Judge orders Google to hand over user data in a suit brought by Viacom over YouTube. Here's a look at the completely subjective biggest stories in search from 2008:
Google is slicing and dicing the amount of time it stores IP addresses. Previously keeping them intact for 18 months, Google is now anonymizing IP addresses at 9 months. They're changing the anonymization of user suggestions to 24 hours.
I also wrote that User IDs, IP addresses, and Visitor IDs would still be handed over. When producing data from the Logging Database pursuant to the Order, Defendants shall substitute values while preserving uniqueness for entries in the following...
Viacom will still receive user ID, user IP addresses, and visitor ID data. Despite a court order requiring Google to hand over YouTube user viewing histories, Viacom and Google have come to an agreement where that data will be left out of the user...
But since IP addresses and usernames aren't necessary to determine general viewing practices, our lawyers have asked their lawyers to let us remove that information before we hand over the data they're seeking.
Data to be released includes user names, IP addresses, and videos watched. District Judge Louis Stanton has ruled that Google can keep its source code secret, but must hand over user logs for the popular video sharing site.
The one major shortcoming at this point seems to be the variability in geo-tracking caused by the need to rely on IP addresses for location. I have no doubts that sometime in the near future the search engines will be tailoring their local results...
Engines Log IP Addresses robots" to say something like "if you're a human, please allow cookies, and then you'll get a code to let you in. Google will only know that someone from an anonymous IP (it can't be traced back to you, remember) did a...
Google Says They Will Give Brazil Orkut Data - Google will give over the Orkut data of specific users including IP addresses with time and date stamps that can help trace a specific user and registration information including names and e-mail...
