encrypting all search data, regardless of whether a user was signed in or not. The company offered the following statement to clarify...

lawsuit claiming the site had given private information included in user search queries to third parties without gaining consent from...

Or, as Microsoft is calling it today, “Gspam.” That’s the term they’re using for those ads that look like emails in Gmail (which, last I...

The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK has set a deadline of September 20, 2013 for Google to amend the policy to make it easier...

Some are afraid that Glass is auto-recording (or will) everything it can see or hear, and each word you’ve ever spoken within earshot of...

company-wide privacy policy for the eventual public launch of Google Glass. That’s one of the discoveries in a four-page letter dated...

Data protection authorities in Canada sent a letter today to Google CEO Larry Page, asking the company to take part in a “real dialogue”...

disclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...

Over the years, Google has received several letters from the US Congress worried that it is somehow invading people’s privacy. Now...

statements yesterday denying involvement with the US National Security Agency’s PRISM data gathering program. Today, both are making that...

Source: Washington Post, The Guardian Both the Washington Post and The Guardian are out with stories saying that several major Internet...

to resist. Whether the Bush Administration anti-child porn search subpoenas were a pretext for other types of inquiries we’ll never know....

2013 Google I/O developer conference currently being held in San Francisco, Google CEO Larry Page received a formal letter from...

Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen Whereas the Google of old might just throw products “over the wall” and not think much about their real world...

The New Digital Age. This evening, both were interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered program. I don’t have an advance copy of the book...

A recent survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Digital Future and Bovitz Inc., revealed “Millennials” (those 18-35)  have a...

The European Union’s “Article 29 Working Party,” an EU-wide privacy body, was upset with Google’s privacy within days of it being...

first reported her move, and Google has confirmed it with us. Whitten has been with Google since 2003, but took the role of Director of...

reports this morning that frustrated European authorities “plan to take action” against Google for its failure to satisfy them regarding...

Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How’s that been working out?...