Germany's Federal Minister of Consumer Protection is not at all happy with Facebook. Indeed, in a new open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Ilse Aigner condemned proposed change...
A coalition that includes Google and Microsoft is aiming to get the Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated to reflect the needs of today's technologically fast-paced worl...
At this point, it seems inevitable that people will object to every little tweak Facebook makes; even a 99.9 percent success rate would leave around 400,000 users unhappy. ...
The Federal Trade Commission is considering revising rules surrounding the online collection of children's personal information due to the growing popularity of mobile Internet...
FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour will leave the agency next month, but that's almost surely not soon enough for Google. Today, Harbour criticized Eric Schmidt and the...
I'm sitting here in the exhibit hall at SXSW getting ready for the opening remarks keynote, which is getting ready to get underway. It will be delivered by Danah Boyd of Microso...
The European Union has asked Google to revise the way it stores images for its Maps and Street View services, due to privacy concerns.
Google currently keeps all...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that Google's new social networking service Buzz violates...
Google has made some adjustments to how it uses referral URLs for contextual matching of AdSense ads. Google has started expanding the use of query words in referral URLs to a f...
Politicians are perhaps not the best people to talk to about privacy; they intentionally thrust themselves into the spotlight, and can be responsible for annoying commercials an...
Last year, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada investigated Facebook as a result of several complaints. Then the Privacy Commissioner made some recommendation...
Today, January 28th, is variously recognized as the Feast Day of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Julian's Day. It's Data Privacy Day, too (or Data Protection Day in Europe)...
It's not just Google and Facebook that are under scrutiny from privacy watchdogs.
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), a consumer advocacy group based in O...
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