Mark Zuckerberg initiated Facebook’s purchase of Instagram back in April of this year. Today,  Instagram officially “friend-ed” Facebook...

No longer will users be required to navigate through both account & privacy settings pages to manage  sensitive Facebook information. The...

released a study of privacy and mobile apps for kids. The study concluded that parents weren’t given enough information in the app stores...

report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that most US parents are concerned about their kids’ online privacy and also...

approved Google’s $22.5 million settlement with the FTC. Some Google critics decried the settlement as having little impact on Google....

Google announced that the number of content removal requests submitted by governments have spiked in the first half of the year. From...

Chrome browser finally adds support for the “do not track” (DNT) standard. This was previously reported and confirmed by Google but is...

managed to purchase 1.1 million user email addresses for the meager price of $5. The majority of the email addresses were from the US,...

saber rattling, commentary and anticipation yesterday there was an expectation that Google would be asked by European data protection...

a single more unified policy that allowed it to combine user data from all Google properties into a single view. Google argued that it...

Amsterdam Privacy Conference held earlier this week in The Netherlands, professors from the UC Berkeley School of Law presented...

initiated what the New York Times called “an extensive investigation of nine leading information brokers.” While their practices are...

rundown on the current, increasingly tense state of “do not track” (DNT) negotiations. The W3C standards body is trying to develop a DNT...

Google Wallet and Offers have online-to-offline tracking as one of their long-term objectives. And the advent and growth of smartphones...

iPhone 5 pre-orders went on sale. Unlike some of my colleagues here at SEL/ML I was not up ordering one. But lots of people were and it...

job listing and several stories this morning Google is building an internal “Red Team” to address privacy and security issues. The job...

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...

confirming that the civil penalty Google will pay to settle the “Cookiegate” episode, in which it bypassed the default Safari privacy...

Google’s collection of such data has sparked numerous governmental investigations around the world — some of which are still in progress....

Senate hearing on Wednesday. According to The Hill, Facebook will send Rob Sherman, its Washington DC-based Manager of Privacy and Public...