are ads that include identification of users’ friends who’ve “liked” the advertiser. Facebook has agreed to pay $20 million to end the...

Yahoo username/email last month should find out today if they received one of their top five choices. According to the announcement, even...

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...

latest transparency report shows that the company is seeing double-digit increases in data-related requests so far this year from...

post about greater, coming personalization on Pinterest is a statement that says if consumers don’t want the tracking they can opt-out....

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...

There are also private initiatives that are seemingly deadlocked, including the WC3’s effort to come to agreement on Do Not Track. This...

On Monday, an advisory (non-binding) opinion from Niilo Jaeaeskinen of the EU Court of Justice found that Google cannot (or should not)...

Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served notice that Google must destroy personal information obtained from its Street View...

according to Bloomberg. Many nations in Europe have lined up behind the French who are taking the lead in trying to get Google to offer...

survey from a group called Consumer Action has an unequivocal message for marketers: do not track us. The telephone survey was conducted...

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

statement last night about law-enforcement data requests. Signed by CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell, the statement said...

rebuttals” by other major tech firms, Apple has released a similar statement denying that the government has unfettered access to its...

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

already been written about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) “domestic spying” since The Guardian’s initial revelations about the...

The PRISM Monitoring System Around this time Thursday, the Washington Post and the Guardian had made the case that major tech companies...