Friday, February 24th, 2012
The White House has proposed ab online privacy “BILL OF RIGHTS” that could eventually give the government a greater power to police Internet firms. Coupled with the Administration’s proposal was an announcement by ad networks associated with Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft agreeing to act on “do not track” technology for web browsers. The new scheme
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Last year, Google signed a consent decree with the commission, promising not to make changes to the information it made public about its users without their consent. Last week, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, known as EPIC,...
Monday, February 20th, 2012
“When the IE team heard that Google had bypassed user privacy settings on Safari, we asked ourselves a simple question: is Google circumventing the privacy preferences of Internet Explorer users too?” IE executive Dean Hachamovitch wrote in...
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
The companies have been using special computer code that tricks Apple’s Safari Web-browsing software into letting them monitor many users. Safari, the most widely used browser on mobile devices, is designed to block such tracking by default....
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
Google’s plan to streamline privacy settings for some 60 different services and products on March 1 would allow the company to combine more information about users, reduce users’ control of their own data and give more personal...
Monday, February 6th, 2012
The move is a shot across the bow for a range of companies, including Facebook, that rely on the European market of 500 million people for a hefty chunk of their business. It comes amid a new...
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