Privacy

November 14, 2009

Saturday, November 14, 2009 4:13 PM/EST

Switzerland Drops Legal Hammer on Google Street View

Switzerland is suing Google over its Street View feature in Google Maps, which provides 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street-level views of 100-plus cities all over the world.

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November 5, 2009

Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:00 AM/EST

Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy Critics

Google made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard, which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. This is a fine feature, particularly for folks like yours truly who use a swath of Google Web services and want a faster way to manage them.

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September 30, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:51 PM/EST

Google's Matt Cutts Calls for Disclosure in Tailored Advertising Report

Google's Matt Cutts wants the disclosure to reflect the bias of Chris Hoofnagle, one of the sponsors of the report. I'm of two minds here. I think it's best to disclose everything to head off any attempts to discredit or undermine your position. But I also think the players lobbying against the behavioral advertising that Google, Yahoo and Microsoft do are pretty established. They're not hiding anywhere.

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August 12, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:19 AM/EST

Onion News Network: Google Opt-Out Village

The Onion News Network has posted a video that should go down as a classic for all Google Watchers: the 22-acre Google Opt-Out Village is for users concerned about Google collecting too much data from their searches and Gmail use.

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July 25, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009 7:14 AM/EST

Digg's Kevin Rose to Ask Google's Marissa Mayer About Bing, Biggest Threat and Skynet

Digg's Kevin Rose will ask Google's Marissa Mayer about data collection practices, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, ISP bottlenecks, exciting beta products and Skynet. Check out the questions in full here ...

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July 19, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:35 AM/EST

Google Looking for Federal Antitrust Lawyer as Privacy Counsel

Google is looking to hire a privacy policy counsel for its Washington D.C. I wonder if this is purely a precautionary measure, or if Google is shoring up its defenses because it is expecting to get hit with something soon. Maybe Google is planning to announce some new behavioral targeting measures that will put it under the microscope even more.

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June 25, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:29 PM/EST

Google Friend Connect Helps Friends Follow Your Digital Footprints

A new Google Friend Connect gadget aims to clue Website owners in to who's visiting their sites and when. Will site visitors have to erase their footprints for every Google Friend Connect site they visit, or is it a one-time opt-out?

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June 19, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009 6:48 PM/EST

Would You Opt In to Let Google and Facebook Shadow You Online?

If the House does in fact pass legislation requiring Google, Facebook and others to plug these opt-in Easy Buttons into their end-user pages, would you opt in, allowing providers to keep tabs on you? Yes, no or maybe? Why?

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April 7, 2009

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:59 AM/EST

Google Under Attack from Forces of Reaction

The forces of reaction are aiming their pitchforks at Google. Like pogroms of the past, entrenched powers faced with uncontrollable change try to forestall the inevitable by egging on disgruntled masses in the wrong direction. Cause and effect. Rupert Murdoch...

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March 26, 2009

Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:37 PM/EST

Google at a Crossroads

If Google doesn't straighten out its act in a hurry, it may lose the enterprise crowd for good. Google Docs has three potentially crippling security breaches, according to a report from Techrunch, that put recent Gmail availability issues into proper...

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