Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) claims Google’s privacy policy is in breach of the Dutch data protection act. According to the...

Simon Davies has filed a formal privacy complaint in 14 European countries against Google’s expanded “Shared Endorsements” ad program....

report from IDG news service. Google has had trouble and been criticized in Europe since consolidating its many privacy policies into one...

reported earlier today Google will pay $17 million “to settle allegations brought by 37 states and the District of Columbia that it...

announced back in August — are taking effect today. In a blog post today, the company goes out of its way to explain that the update...

By now, you have likely noticed that everyone is talking (and texting) about the amendments to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...

Last month Google announced a program called “Estimated Total Conversions.” That program is intended to report or provide visibility into...

There’s a ton of valuable information that has never been available before: where consumers spent time in stores and for how long, their...

has asked the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at Google’s “Shared Endorsements” ads. On Thursday when the New York Times...

NOTE: See our follow-up story, FAQ: All About Google’s New “Shared Endorsement” Ads According to a report in the New York Times: On...

Last month, Google made one of the biggest changes in search privacy ever, by routing all searches through its Google Secure Search...

Google has a new system in place designed to prevent “mugshots” sites from ranking well. Such sites make money convincing people to...

reported in the New York Times, Google is confronting two “wiretapping” class actions that have been allowed to move forward in the...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that France’s privacy regulator, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL),...

Facebook recently settled a “Sponsored Stories” class action lawsuit for $20 million. That suit argued that Facebook had misappropriated...

affirmed a lower court ruling denying Google’s motion to dismiss a class action brought after the 2010 Street View private “payload data”...

issued its first transparency report and, not surprisingly, it shows that the U.S. is the source of more governmental requests than any...

report from the Pew Research Center has some interesting and eye-opening findings about online privacy. Among them, the survey finds that...

Facebook announced updates to its Data Use Policy this week, Reuters is reporting that the social network is considering applying its...

“sponsored stories” legal settlement, Facebook is following court orders by updating the documents that explain how the company collects...