Tech companies named in reports to be part of the NSA’s “PRISM” data gathering program have strongly denied participating in programs...

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...

Those data, it has been alleged, come in large part from direct access to the servers of most of the Internet’s biggest brands: Google,...

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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), as part of its ongoing mission to educate the public, has released its third annual “Who’s Got Your...

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

Part of this mix is third-party tools that get in the middle by letting users prevent websites from tracking their behavior. One such...

article, two CMA Communications customers have reported banner ads being injected directly into webpages on popular websites, and they...

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

reporting that a German court has invalidated a decision of the German privacy regulator, which opposes Facebook’s real names/identities...

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

Flickr Quietly Tells Users Flickr made no post about this on its blog. Instead, yesterday, as one of the impacted users, Flickr sent me...

attacked Google Shopping with a “Scroogled” campaign last November, Microsoft is back again. This time it goes after Gmail as an evil...

earlier report on privacy and mobile apps for kids, the FTC has released a sweeping report on mobile privacy in general. It’s based on...

As a result, the US government is standing beside Internet companies such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and eBay, lobbying European...

second Twitter Transparency Report, and this version has expanded information about the various legal requests that come from the U.S....

Microsoft’s change happened on October 19. It was announced with little notice to consumers. Despite allowing for cross-platform sharing...