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New Data Retention Laws in Germany

Last week, Germany’s ruling parties – a coalition of SPD & CDU, with efforts in the digital area recently spearheaded by minister of interior Wolfgang Schäuble (pictured) – passed a bill for new data retention laws*.

Your Email Campaign Needs Work

A study of email campaigns presented at the Shop.org Summit contended that marketers aren't doing enough to maximize the return on their efforts.

Top Web Sites Have Retention, Overlap

Nielsen//NetRatings has announced the leaders in three Web categories. Search, career development and multi-category travel have had high month- over- month visitor retention rates from June to July, but also had audience overlap with other competitors in their categories.

Ask to Put You in Control of Privacy with AskEraser

Ask.com is taking online privacy to a new level–by putting you in control of your privacy when searching on the internet.

Google To Watchdog: Mind Your Own Business

Peter Fleischer, Google's top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.

EU Investigation Goes Beyond Google

When the European Union confronted Google over its data retention policies, some people - including Google’s own global privacy counsel - wondered why Yahoo, Microsoft, and a number of other companies were left alone.  Now it appears that the EU is going to take a look at them, after all.

Google Reduces Data Retention Policy To 18 Months

Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer appears to be a master of textual undercurrents (what the reader understands as "between the lines"), responding to Privacy International's recent condemnation of the company's privacy policies without mentioning the group itself.

EU Challenges Google On Data Retention

Two years may be too long to keep search information without some kind of justification, according to the European Union.

Yahoo Miles Above Google for Retention

An interesting, albeit controversial, set of statistics was provided by Compete.com last week outlining the top 20 online properties that a pool of 2,000,000 people spent the most time on in December 2006.

HR Consulting Firm Provides Employee Retention Guidance

You attract them, you screen them, you interview them, you hire and train them, and then they leave you. It is estimated that employee turn over costs U.S. companies over one billion dollars annually.