Google links to Privacy Policy page from homepage
Search engine giant Google has made a change on their homepage and it is big news.
The new addition on the Google homepage is a link to their privacy policy.
The company was under pressure from several privacy groups to add this link on the homepage of the site.
This is [...]
North Oaks asks Google to remove their images from Street View
North Oaks residents are asking the search engine giant Google to remove the images taken in their locations from their Street View service on Google Maps.
The city has a unique distinction as the roads are privately owned by the residents. They also enforce a trespassing [...]
Facebook in privacy related issues in Canada
Canada’s federal privacy commissioner has revealed that they are now looking into the Facebook social networking platform for potential privacy related violations.
The complaint was filed by a group of students at the University of Ottawa who said that the service has committed 22 violations of the law.
One of the [...]
Google now blurring faces on Street View
Search engine giant Google has revealed that they are now using a new technology to blur the faces of people on their Street View service.
It would however take them some months to implement this change throughout the entire database.
The company said in a blog post that they have now [...]
Blockbuster sued for privacy violation related to Facebook Beacon ad system
Cathryn Elaine Harris, of Dallas County, Texas has filed a privacy violation lawsuit against video rental company Blockbuster.
She is claiming that the company passed her personal information to the popular social networking service Facebook.
This information was passed to Facebook through their controversial Beacon advertising system.
Randy [...]
Microsoft wants online ad companies to protect user privacy
Microsoft might be a smaller player in the online advertising market but they have now called on all rival players in this segment to adopt some rules to protect user privacy.
The company has now submitted their proposal with the Federal Trade Commission.
They are calling for a [...]
Facebook Chat: Facebook to add chat feature as they enhance user privacy
Social networking service Facebook has announced that they are now providing enhanced privacy settings to the users of their network.
These new features would enable the users to decide what their friends, and friends of their friends see.
Matt Cohler, Facebook’s vice president of product management [...]
EU says online search engines would have to follow their rules
European data privacy regulators have said that search engines whether they operate from Europe or not would have to follow their rules and regulations.
It said in a statement: “Search engines fall under the EU data protection directive if there are controllers collecting users’ IP addresses [...]
Ask.com launches AskEraser
Online search engine service Ask.com has announced the availability of a new service named AskEraser.
This service has been made available to allow the web users to delete data on their search queries.
The aim is to provide better privacy to the users of the Ask.com search engine.
Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Lanzone spoke [...]
Facebook users annoyed with recently launched ‘features’
Facebook recently launched new features which enabled them to showcase user activities outside the website to their profiles on the social networking service.
This feature is compatible with online services like Fandango, Overstock and other online retailers.
Users are shown a box telling them that their activities on these third party [...]
