Posts Tagged with ‘privacy’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yahoo! has just informed subscribers to corporate newsletter of the newly available “privacy choice for consumers”. This basically means that from the end of August we will be able to opt-out of customized advertising on yahoo.com if we believe it invades our privacy. Actually Yahoo! had an opt-out available to users even before today: users [...]

I have just received an announcement from a startup Arzoola that introduced Social Call!, the application that its creators brand as "the world's first Craigslist application". I am not sure if it is actually the first in the world but since it sounded too intriguing and we definitely get much more announcements for Facebook apps, [...]

Do you consider your interactions on social networking sites to be private? Amanda Hudson is suing six U.K. newspapers based on the assumption that whatever happens on Bebo (or, by extension, other social networks) should stay on Bebo after a story her 15-year-old concocted and posted to the site was picked up by several newspapers. [...]

I have read and re-read Judge Stanton's decision in the Google/Viacom suit more times than I really should have. At first, I was as outraged as everyone else, assuming that Judge Stanton was one more government figure without a clue how the Internet even works. So I called my mother, who works in the courts, [...]

There's nothing more depressing than watching a bear cub take a swipe at a gigantic, planet-eating corporation, but that's exactly what we saw today. Ask.com took to its blog today with an open missive titled "Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy." In the post, Ask.com references the letter sent to Google from 14 privacy watchdog [...]

How much do most of us think about the search terms we enter into our search engine of choice? Are there times when you hesitate entering a word or phrase? Do you ever wonder if someone out there, either an employee of the company that runs your search engine or some faceless researcher who gains [...]

… in hating New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky. Brodsky, a Democrat representing a Westchester County District, is sponsoring a bill that would limit the ability of companies to collect information for targeted advertising. Joining Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in opposing the bill are AOL, Comcast, eBay, EDS, and Facebook. Jim Halpert, general counsel for [...]