Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

We all know the famous trends of web 2.0 like user-generated content or content syndication and we have grown to accept the internet as it is - along with all the strengths and weaknesses of the system. And of course as any medium internet can have both good and bad sides - and quite logically [...]

Usually when Google does something - whatever it is - it inevitably attracts tons of attention from public and media. But the problem is that we have not seen actually groundbreaking announcements from the internet giant recently as they usually come up with things like new features added to Gmail Labs.
Yet it looks like today [...]

I have already complained once that Google seems to be totally determined to do everything the internet giant can for us not to have to think about our emails a lot: Gmail reminds us we should attach the file we have forgotten to attach and it can even encourage you not to send that email [...]

We often hear complains here and there about the connections between social networks and our real lives and sometimes we even see what looks like real family conflicts with husbands and wives remaining unconnected on Facebook, even when they both have accounts. But now we are facing a new issue of the growing disappointment of [...]

It is no wonder that given our mostly online lifestyle we begin to care more and more about our privacy: after all, when you give so much information about yourself away, you can’t help but wonder how people who have access to this information will use it (or rather will they use it at all). [...]

Recently Google has introduced to the world its latest and biggest change to the way we see search results - SearchWiki. This functionality allows any logged in Google user to vote sites up and down in search results, add notes (or comments) about certain sites and even add the results that are not there yet [...]

Today we have seen the beginning of a new initiative on the Official Google Blog to predict the future of search based on opinions of top 10 Google experts. The series has started with a post by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products & User Experience.
Marissa begins with a confession that she is a search addict [...]

Google has been criticized for a long time about storing history of all the searches performed by a user on its servers for as long as it wanted along with the IP addresses associated with those search queries. This policy was changed in March 2007 to only store user’s information for 18 months - after [...]