Aggressive advertising, unwanted friends, and employer-snooping into social networking profiles may dull the edge of being on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Google Wrestles With EU Privacy Discussion
Privacy considerations for Internet users suffer from a lack of a global standard, leaving it to companies to try and figure out what they should be doing.
Google Privacy Channel Launches On YouTube
The bigger Google gets, the more worried privacy advocates grow. So, in an effort to make its policies and opinions more transparent, the search giant has launched a new “Google Privacy Channel” on YouTube.
AOL Spreads Its Privacy Education Program
AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting.
FTC Talks Online Privacy Today
The two-day town hall meeting about behavioral targeting, announced amid privacy concerns about Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, begins today in Washington DC.
Analysts: Privacy Won’t Stop Google, DoubleClick
The whispering campaign favoring Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has begun, as a number of antitrust observers predict FTC approval of the deal.
On Facebook, Poop More Popular Than Privacy
There are variations on the phrase I don’t give a [flying] crap. But apparently that’s not always true. At Facebook, at least, they’ll give one, or throw one, so long as its imaginary and only costs them some personal information.
Google Video: Privacy & Personalized Search
Early last month the Google Blog released a video regarding privacy. On Monday they released a second video this time specifically discussing privacy as it pertains to personalized search.
Once again support engineer Maile Ohye offers some clear explanations
Google Street View To Respect Canada’s Privacy
Canadian people have visible faces, and Canadian cars have legible license plates. But when Google Street View offers images of Canada, these features will be blurred or otherwise blocked out in order to respect privacy concerns.
The Privacy Is In The Pudding (Or Not)
There are so many obvious cliché puns just sitting there, grinning like toads: if you don’t eat your meat…; the proof is in the…; $240 worth of…Pudding. What pudding has to do with telephony services is unclear, except that Pudding Media has started a conversation about how far is too far when it comes to targeted advertising.