Google saw someone’s cat – and so it begins. Earlier this week, the search engine giant released Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to see things from the perspective of a person driving down a public road. Now privacy concerns are beginning to mount.
Odd Privacy Comments From Google’s Fleischer
The company’s global privacy counsel had some critical things to say about proposed Swedish wiretapping legislation, but picked a strange example when comparing Sweden to other countries.
Google Privacy Concerns
On Friday I mentioned that privacy advocates are becoming even more concerned with how much information Google knows and will know about us. Two recent events are causing the uproar. First is Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick, which would come with a large amounts of user data the ad company has collected over the years. Second is the slightly more recent expansion of search history to web history within Google’s personalized search. Both will give Google more information about our surfing and searching habits than any company has ever had.
Google Protects What’s Left Of Your Privacy
There has been plenty of discussion lately on Google and their privacy policy. In a recent blog post Matt Cutts expressed his personal opinion on the issue.
Microsoft Lobbying For Data Privacy Laws
A growing concern of today’s average citizen is the security of their data. With so many consumers making purchases online, as well as search engines looking to become more personalized by tracking a user’s web history and search trends, ensuring user privacy and protection is becoming increasingly important to a fast growing segment of the population.
Privacy And Mobile Technology
A new survey from Harris Interactive shows that US mobile phone users are concerned about privacy when it comes to location-based services and presence technology. These services, some of which are available, can tell where a person is physically located, what communication device they are using and how they can be reached.
Online Consumers Less Concerned About Privacy
Privacy, security and how much information consumers are willing to share with online businesses are becoming less of an issue. Consumers are seemingly becoming more comfortable with information they provide to online retailers in exchange for improved service and personalization.
Digital Privacy A Shattered Utopia
Recent reports of YouTube and Yahoo’s cooperation in providing private user data to third parties has drawn the attention and criticism of bloggers and information journalists alike. The question begins to arise: Just how private is your online life?
Should Privacy Search Command Be Standard?
One of the issues facing the search engine industry is privacy. People aren’t necessarily keen on the fact search engines store each and every query executed as well as the applicable IP information. Remember the AOL debacle? In light of those events, you’d have to think active search engine users would welcome a command that […]
Facebook Admits Fault, Adds Privacy Controls
The people have spoken, and Facebook has listened. The social networking site recently added feeds that broadcasted users’ every (cyber) movement – according to one person, the changes made Facebook “stalkeriffic.” Today, the site’s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, made an admission: “We really messed this one up.”