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It's been more than two months since Google has adopted its new unified privacy policy and, well, the sky hasn't fallen over.
That doesn't mean that Google is off the hook just yet, Europe's privacy regulators are very suspicious about the whole thing and probably more than a little bit irritate... |
17 May 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Facebook just changed its privacy policy last year. No one made much fuss about it since no one really cared about privacy policies until Google decided to announce it was going to update its own. So the matter went fairly unnoticed, but that was not the end of it.Now Facebook is looking to update the policy, to incl... |
13 May 2012
04:21 GMT |
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Google's new privacy policy is set to become active today. It hasn't been enabled yet, but it should be, momentarily. There's been a lot of talk, mostly uninformed, about the new privacy policy and there have been plenty of people making up all sorts of scenarios.
Unfortunately, one thing that hasn&#... |
1 March 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Apple has agreed to implement new standards for displaying privacy policies throughout applications that collect user data, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris has announced.
Targeting not only Apple, but also Google, Amazon, HP, RIM and Microsoft, “The agreement with the platforms is designed to ensu... |
23 February 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced plans to make a series of changes to its privacy policies regarding some of its most popular products, and concerns on the matter started to emerge soon afterwards.
Some suggested that Google might actually plan on increasing its control over user’s accounts, and that the new chan... |
2 February 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced a series of changes brought to their privacy policy, altering the way in which users can stay in control of their information.
Those changes affected some of the most popular products coming from Google, including Search, Gmail, Google Plus, and others, and concerns started to arise.
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1 February 2012
07:29 GMT |
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Google finds itself having to explain its privacy policy changes, mostly to people who haven't bothered to read either the old privacy policies, all 70 of them, or the new one, but are shocked and outraged nonetheless.
Several US Congress members, some with a long record of grandstanding, have all taken issue t... |
27 January 2012
05:01 GMT |
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Google has announced that it is making some big changes to its privacy policies and Terms of Service across all of its products. The changes will go into effect starting March 1st, but Google posted the new privacy policies for everyone to look over them before they go live. The major change, and it is a big one, is... |
25 January 2012
06:37 GMT |
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reviewed Google's privacy changes and acknowledged the improvements made by the company following the Street View incident.The audit was carried out to verify that Google is complying with an undertaking it signed after the ICO found that it breached the Da... |
16 August 2011
12:06 GMT |
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After having received numerous complaints regarding their privacy policy and how difficult it was to comprehend it, Facebook decided to release a more user-friendly version that is structured differently than the standard one and also uses a 'simpler' language.First of all, it should be noted that the impro... |
27 February 2011
16:25 GMT |
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Google has announced that it has updated its privacy policy and that the new version will come in effect starting October 3rd. The actual policies haven't changed, but the text has been simplified and some bits added to make the whole thing easier to read and understand by the regular user."Long, complicated and... |
4 September 2010
06:44 GMT |
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As a response to the most recent privacy backlash, Facebook head of public policy Tim Sparapani announced in a radio show that the company would be offering users some new and more 'simplistic' privacy options within the following weeks. He said that this decision was caused by the fact that users had comp... |
20 May 2010
07:03 GMT |
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With the discussion surrounding Google's settlement with book publishers and authors heating up and its competitors banding together against the deal, Google is also stepping up with an update on the Privacy Policy for Google Books. Google previously said it was unable to provide a more thorough policy, due to t... |
4 September 2009
03:51 GMT |
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The results from a previous lawsuit between Vogue cover-girl Liskula Cohen and Google have spawned new troubles for the Mountain View-based company. Rosemary Port, a fashion student in New York, has sued Google for breaching its privacy policy and disclosing personal information to a third party.The timeline of all t... |
24 August 2009
09:21 GMT |
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It seems that the newly released high-end Palm Pre is set to periodically send end-user data to Palm, as Joey Hess, a Debian developer, points out. According to him, the data sent to the handset maker includes GPS location, what applications are installed on the device, what apps are used and for how long, and crash ... |
13 August 2009
04:15 GMT |
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An Indian company, tired of the unceasing attacks of an anonymous blogger, decided to file a lawsuit against him, as Blog Wired, citing a Wall Street Journal article, reports. But Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects encounters a problem. The company cannot find out the identity of the blogger who made a habi... |
16 August 2008
06:41 GMT |
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent an inquiry to Yahoo! and other Internet companies, expecting answers related to the targeted ads and their influence over people's right to privacy. Yahoo! saw this as a great opportunity to reveal that it has introduced an option offering users the possibility to opt... |
9 August 2008
04:42 GMT |
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