Google reshooting Street View pictures in Japan
US based search engine giant Google has revealed that they are going to reshoot photos in Japan for their Street View service.
They decided to reshoot all the photos after complaints raised by Japanese authorities about invasion of privacy.
Google said that the photos would now be taken at a lower [...]
European Union to target Britain over privacy issues
European Union is all set to started legal action against Britain over privacy issues.
Britain is being targeted for not applying EU data privacy rules to protect their citizens.
The EU also warned that they might force social networking services like Facebook to hide information connected to their minor users [...]
Google limits YouTube access in South Korea
Google has now restricted web users from South Korea to post comments or upload videos on their YouTube service.
This step has been taken to avoid getting banned by the government which now requires popular web sites to verify the names of the users before letting them participate on their [...]
How to opt out of Google Interest Based Advertising Program
Search engine giant Google has just announced that they would soon start their Interest Based Advertising program.
This would enable the company to display ads to web users based on their interests.
The company would look at the user’s YouTube history and the kind of sites he visit [...]
It becomes harder to blog anonymously in Vietnam
Vietnamese government has now made it tougher for bloggers in the country to hide their identities.
The government has now announced a new initiative that would force the online service providers to provide data on users.
Vietnamese government had said recently that they wanted to keep a tight control [...]
The New York Times: Now blocked in China!
The New York Times has reported that the Chinese government has blocked access to their website in the country.
The newspaper company said that visitors from Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou were not able to connect to their service yesterday.
Users are unable to access the NYT website [...]
Yahoo to purge data from search queries after 90 days
Search engine company Yahoo has announced that they are now going to purge user data collected from search queries after a period of three months.
With this, they now have the shortest data retention policy amongst the top search engine companies in the world.
Yahoo said that they [...]
Microsoft offers to reduce data retention time limit if Google does the same
Software giant Microsoft has said that they would reduce the time limit of data retention on their search engine if Google and other search engines does the same.
The search engine companies continues to argue that they need to retain the data to improve [...]
Google sued in India for its Blogger service
Online privacy seems to be taking a hit in India as Google has now been sued by an Indian company to reveal the name of a blogger who they claim is defaming them.
Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects has filed the lawsuit asking the courts to order Google to [...]
Yahoo to enable web users opt out of their ad behavior monitoring system
Internet media giant Yahoo has said that they are now going to enable the web users to opt out of their Web browsing behavior monitoring system that is used to display relevant ads.
This new feature would be added in the coming weeks and [...]
