Fahad HMar 9, 20123 min readPew Survey: 68% View Targeted Ads Negatively; 59% Have Noticed TargetingThe findings are from a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Around 2,000 adults in the US were surveyed between...
Fahad HMar 5, 20122 min readInept Lobbying By Anti-Google Front Group Does More Harm Than Good For Microsoftblogged about an experience of attending a seminar on privacy at the European Parliament in Brussels. The seminar was put on...
Fahad HFeb 24, 20122 min readSurvey: Paid Search Found To Be As “Trusted” As TV Product Placement Ads Arereport, “The State of the Media, US Digital Consumer Report,” Nielsen polled US consumers about their trust in advertising by media...
Fahad HFeb 23, 20125 min readWhite House Launches “Consumer Bill Of Rights” Effort, Companies Commit To “Do Notintroduced a “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” that will be voluntarily supported by Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft. The companies have...
Fahad HFeb 22, 20122 min read36 State Attorneys General Call For Privacy Meeting With GoogleThree dozen state attorneys general want to meet with Google “as soon as possible” to discuss the company’s privacy changes — changes...
Fahad HFeb 21, 20124 min readGoogle: “Impractical” To Comply With IE’s P3P Privacy Controls; Microsoft, Facebootaking fire for Microsoft accusing it of overriding Internet Explorer privacy controls. But Google’s now out with a response: the...
Fahad HFeb 20, 20122 min readMicrosoft: Google Is Bypassing Internet Explorer Privacy Settings, Tooignoring privacy settings on Apple’s Safari web browser, Microsoft says Google is doing the same thing with Internet Explorer. Microsoft...
Fahad HFeb 17, 20123 min readNo Surprise: Congress, Consumer & Privacy Groups Want Google To Explain Safari Privacy Snafubypassing user privacy settings on Apple’s Safari web browser. The story surfaced late last night in the Wall Street Journal, and has...
Fahad HFeb 17, 20126 min readGoogle Didn’t “Track” iPhones, But It Did Bypass Safari’s Privacy SettingsThe Wall Street Journal is out with a story about how Google has been “bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people” who use...
Fahad HFeb 3, 20123 min readEuropeans, EPIC Bring More Scrutiny To Google Privacy Changesprivacy policy changes continues on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Commission wants to look more closely at Google’s new,...
Fahad HFeb 2, 201210 min readNo, You Don’t Need To Fear The Google Privacy Changes: A Reality CheckGoogle’s new privacy policy changes happen. Microsoft is running an ad campaign encouraging switching to its services as safer or more...
Fahad HFeb 1, 20124 min readGoogle “Myth Busts” Microsoft’s Privacy ClaimsMicrosoft’s ad campaign that slams Google’s forthcoming privacy policy changes with a mythbusting blog post. Here’s a look at the myths...
Fahad HFeb 1, 201210 min readMicrosoft Slams Google Privacy Changes With “Putting People First” Ad CampaignGoogle’s biggest threat was Google itself. His words are ringing true, as Google arch-nemesis Microsoft is seizing on Google’s recent...
Fahad HJan 31, 20122 min readGoogle Tells Congress: Users Can Opt-Out Of New Privacy Policy By Not Logging Inalready replied to several questions from Congress about the new, combined privacy policy that the company announced a week ago today....
Fahad HJan 26, 20121 min readHouse Committee Has Privacy Questions For Google; Google Says Bring It Onsweeping new approach to its privacy policy on Tuesday, the company has issued a fairly terse statement that also confirms reports that...
Fahad HJan 25, 20122 min readPoll: 66% Say They’ll Cancel Google Accounts Over Privacy ChangesIs Google facing an angry backlash of users canceling accounts in response to Google’s new terms of service & privacy policy? It will if...
Fahad HJan 24, 20125 min readGoogle’s New Terms Of Service & Privacy Policy: Anything You Do May Be Used To Target YouIn many ways, this is Google growing up into the new portal it has become. Rather than people signing up for individual products, Gmail,...
Fahad HJan 23, 20121 min readGoogle Outspends Microsoft In DC Lobbying In 2011report in CNET, based on public filings with the US Senate Office of Public Records, Google spending on federal lobbying exceeded that of...
Fahad HJan 23, 20122 min readGoogle Gives OK To Pseudonyms, Nicknames On Google+promised last fall, Google says it will soon begin allowing pseudonyms and alternate names on Google+. Google+ VP Bradley Horowitz...
Fahad HJan 23, 20123 min readEU Ready To Impose Tough Privacy Rules On Google, FacebookReuters, this week the EU will offer a sweeping set of new rules that would dramatically impact how internet companies can use personal...
