Google: Privacy
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Google Launching “Sponsored Endorsements” — User Ratings, Comments, Likes Integrated Into Ads
Google is going to use the images, likenesses, comments and other user-created data of its users in ads on its display network. The forthcoming...
The Questions Google Refuses To Answer About Search Privacy
Last month, Google made one of the biggest changes in search privacy ever, by routing all searches through its Google Secure Search service. Why...
No Data For You: SEO Experts Offer Opinions On Google’s Move To Withhold Even More Search Term Data
Google quietly confirmed earlier this week that it would be encrypting all search data, regardless of whether a user was signed in or not. The...
Privacy Groups Ask Court To Reject Google Settlement, Claim It Won’t Fix Privacy Issues
Last month, Google agreed to pay $8.5 million to a settlement fund over a lawsuit claiming the site had given private information included in...
Microsoft’s Latest Scroogled Target: Google’s “Gspam” Ads That Look Like Email
Microsoft has taken another shot at Google today with the latest push in its ongoing “Scroogled” campaign. This one? Another attack...
UK’s ICO Watchdog Tells Google To Update Privacy Policy By September 20th Or Else
The NextWeb reports Google is on the hot seat again over its simplified privacy policy that went into effect March 1, 2012. The Information...
The Google Glass Privacy Debate: What’s Real & What’s Overblown Hype
To hear some people tell it, Google Glass is leading us down a path toward a world where every citizen is a walking, hidden spy, surreptitiously...
Google Tells Congress: We’re Not Changing Our Privacy Policy For Google Glass
Google says it has no plans to change its company-wide privacy policy for the eventual public launch of Google Glass. That’s one of the...
Canadian Govt. Asks Google To Explain Google Glass Privacy
Google Glass isn’t publicly available yet, and even the Explorer edition is supposed to only be for US residents, but that’s not...
Google, Facebook In Transparency Battle Over PRISM Disclosures
Last night, what might be called a “transparency battle” erupted between Google and Facebook following Facebook’s disclosure...
Imaginary Letter: Google CEO Larry Page Writes Congress, Asks “What’s Up With PRISM?”
Over the years, Google has received several letters from the US Congress worried that it is somehow invading people’s privacy. Now...
Google & Facebook CEOs To Users: We’re Not Part Of PRISM & Government Needs More Transparency
Both Google and Facebook gave the press statements yesterday denying involvement with the US National Security Agency’s PRISM data...
Google, Apple, Facebook & AOL Deny Participating In Alleged NSA “PRISM” Program
Both the Washington Post and The Guardian are out with stories saying that several major Internet companies gave the US National Security Agency...
Google In Secret Legal Battle With Feds Over Consumer Data
In 2006, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo all complied with Bush Administration Justice Department (DOJ) subpoenas to turn over search records —...
Congress Sends Google CEO Larry Page Letter Asking About Google Glass Privacy Concerns
In the midst of the 2013 Google I/O developer conference currently being held in San Francisco, Google CEO Larry Page received a formal letter...
Schmidt: Google Has More Respect For “Real World” Concerns, One Reason Why Google Glass Is Limited
Whereas the Google of old might just throw products “over the wall” and not think much about their real world impacts, the Google of...
Eric Schmidt Takes Refreshingly Sober View Of Technology In His Book “The New Digital Age”
Along with co-author and foreign policy expert Jared Cohen, Google Executive Chairman is doing the rounds on radio and TV in support of their...
Study: Millennials More Comfortable Sharing Personal Data For Targeted Ads & Relevant Offers
A recent survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Digital Future and Bovitz Inc., revealed “Millennials” (those 18-35)...
Unhappy Google’s Not Changed Privacy Policy, EU Vows Six Individual EU Nations Will Press On
The European Union’s privacy watchdog announced today that as Google hasn’t made suggested changes to its privacy policy, it will...
Google’s Privacy Director, Alma Whitten, Leaving On July 1st
Alma Whitten, Google’s Director of Privacy for Product and Engineering, is leaving the company this summer. Forbes first reported her...
