Fahad HJan 18, 20131 min readChrome To Gain Search Encryption, Following Similar Moves By Firefox & Mobile SafariThe wave of browsers using Google SSL Search — and thus blocking publishers from receiving search term data — continues. Google’s own...
Fahad HDec 18, 20122 min readEU Takes 10 Days To Question Google Privacy Change; After Two Months, Finally Looks At MicrosoftRMicrosoft’s change happened on October 19. It was announced with little notice to consumers. Despite allowing for cross-platform sharing...
Fahad HOct 19, 20128 min readDark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided”A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found...
Fahad HOct 16, 20123 min readEuropeans: Google Privacy Policy Not Illegal But Please Make Some Changessaber rattling, commentary and anticipation yesterday there was an expectation that Google would be asked by European data protection...
Fahad HOct 15, 20123 min readEuropeans To Ask Google To Change Unified Privacy Policy, Gain User Consent For Data Collectiona single more unified policy that allowed it to combine user data from all Google properties into a single view. Google argued that it...
Fahad HOct 11, 201211 min readMicrosoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To CareThis is a long article, so let me say from the start that I don’t think consumers need to fear either the change Google did or the one...
Fahad HSep 15, 20125 min readAcer, Skyhook And Google’s Android Self-InterestGoogle: Acer Can’t Work On “Non-Compatible Android” & Be Part Of Open Handset Alliance What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It?...
Fahad HAug 23, 20122 min readWill Google’s New “Red Team” Keep It Out Of The Privacy Danger Zone?job listing and several stories this morning Google is building an internal “Red Team” to address privacy and security issues. The job...
Fahad HAug 9, 20122 min readFTC: $22.5M Penalty To Get Google To “Take Its Privacy Obligations More Seriously”It’s the largest penalty ever posed for violation of an existing order by the FTC, according to the Commission, but it represents a drop...
Fahad HAug 1, 20121 min readGoogle To Pay $22.5 Million To Settle “Cookiegate” In Latest Privacy Fineconfirming that the civil penalty Google will pay to settle the “Cookiegate” episode, in which it bypassed the default Safari privacy...
Fahad HJul 27, 20122 min readWhoops: Google Admits It Still Has Some WiFi Payload Data Collected Via Street View CarsGoogle’s collection of such data has sparked numerous governmental investigations around the world — some of which are still in progress....
Fahad HJul 10, 20121 min readReport: Google To Pay Massive $22.5 Million “Cookiegate” Finereports Google and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is expected to announce the terms of ‘Cookiegate’ fine. This fine is due to Google...
Fahad HJun 14, 20121 min readNobody Tracks Web Users More Than Google & Facebook, Report SaysThose two companies filled out the top five spots in Evidon’s Global Tracker Report, which was released on Tuesday. The report uses data...
Fahad HMay 29, 20122 min readUK, Australia May Reopen Street View Privacy Probes After FCC Reportasserted that the personal data collected was not inadvertent but intentional. Privacy regulators in both the UK and Australia are now...
Fahad HMay 22, 20122 min readLarry Page: It’s “Unfortunate” That Facebook Keeps Data Closed & Holds Users Google’s CEO Larry Page made an apperance on Charlie Rose yesterday, and he didn’t have many nice things to say about Facebook. Rose...
Fahad HMay 4, 20121 min readReport: Google Negotiating With FTC Over Safari ‘Cookiegate’ FineBloomberg report that cites a “person familiar with the matter.” Bloomberg’s source says that Google could face a fine of “tens of...
Fahad HApr 27, 20121 min readGoogle Street View “Wi-Spy” Investigation Closed With $25,000 Penaltyreports that the Street View WiFi eavesdropping investigation by the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) against Google has now...
Fahad HApr 19, 20122 min readThe Daily Show’s Jon Stewart Rips Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping InvestigationGoogle doesn’t want to divulge information? Why not post it on Google+? That was one of several zingers Daily Show host Jon Stewart had...
Fahad HApr 17, 20121 min readGoogle Could Face ‘Cookiegate’ Fine In Next 30 Says (Report)An article in today’s San Jose Mercury News confirms an earlier Wall Street Journal report that the FTC is investigating Google’s...
Fahad HApr 15, 20124 min readFCC Clears Google Over Wifi Eavesdropping But Fines It $25,000 For “Noncompliance” With The StreetView Wifi Eavesdropping In 2010, it was discovered that Google’s Street View cars were doing more than just taking pictures....
