Fahad HSep 18, 20142 min readApple CEO’s Privacy Letter Indirectly Slams Google, FacebookApple CEO Tim Cook’s open letter to users about privacy has sparked lots of discussion. The letter is appropriate given the recent iCloud...
Fahad HSep 17, 20142 min readYelp Fined $450K By FTC For Collecting Kids’ Registration InfoThe U.S. FTC announced today that Yelp agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a complaint brought for violations of the Children’s Online...
Fahad HSep 2, 20142 min readEU Taking Harder Look At $19B Facebook-WhatsApp DealEuropean regulators have reportedly sent an unusual “second wave” of questions to a range of companies as part of its antitrust review of...
Fahad HAug 28, 20142 min readSurvey: More People Trust Google Than The U.S. Gov’tAccording to a new survey from privacy management tool MyLife (above), more people trust Google than the U.S. government with their...
Fahad HAug 6, 20141 min readWikimedia Foundation Granted Zero Of 304 Content Removal Requests Since 2012The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, released its first ever transparency report today, claiming it...
Fahad HAug 5, 20142 min readData Protection Case Against Facebook Ireland Open To All Users Outside Of US & CanadaAustrian privacy activist Max Schrems wants Facebook to pay for breaching European data protection law, and has filed a lawsuit against...
Fahad HJul 31, 20142 min readGoogle Faces Thai Criminal Case For Not Shutting Down BloggerGoogle’s founders, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and its entire board have been named as criminal defendants in a case in Thailand. The...
Fahad HJul 23, 20142 min readMost Consumers Reject In-Store Mobile Tracking — Or Do They?The large majority of consumers have not had any experience with indoor location or indoor marketing on mobile devices. However there are...
Fahad HJul 22, 20142 min readItalian Privacy Police Give Google 18 Months To Make ChangesItaly is the latest country to issue what amounts to an ultimatum to Google to change its privacy practices or face fines (up to $1...
Fahad HJul 16, 20142 min readSurvey: 74% Of U.S. Adults Would Delete Themselves From Search Results If They CouldIn the wake of the the Right to Be Forgotten controversy in Europe, Survey Monkey has conducted a survey of online adults (n=210) to...
Fahad HJun 5, 20142 min readTrust Vs. Bribes And The Consumer Privacy Paradoxwary of marketers and concerned about tracking and privacy. However, they also want more personalization, relevant ads and are happy to...
Fahad HJun 5, 20141 min readWordPress.com To Start Serving Pages Over SSL As Anti-Surveillance MeasureThe company announced today that it’ll begin serving pages on all of its WordPress.com subdomains only over SSL by the end of 2014. Paul...
Fahad HJun 3, 20145 min readHow Google’s New “End-To-End” Email Privacy Push Will Protect You — Even FroGoogle’s out with two big privacy pushes when it comes to Gmail today, aimed at protecting your email from prying eyes. Wait, isn’t...
Fahad HJun 3, 20143 min readDid Privacy Search Engine DuckDuckGo Pay To Be Included Apple’s Safari? That’s Private!Tiny search engine DuckDuckGo scored a huge victory yesterday when Apple announced DuckDuckGo would be an option included in future...
Fahad HMay 30, 20143 min readGoogle To Start “Forgetting” As Removal Request Form Goes Live In Europeexplained last night by Danny Sullivan, the Right to Be Forgotten has gone into effect in Europe, and Google has put up its “please...
Fahad HMay 23, 20142 min readIndustry “Do Not Track” Efforts Bogged Down As Privacy Regulators Move Inannounced earlier this month that it was walking away from “Do Not Track” (DNT), at least for the time being. That action seemed to...
Fahad HMay 16, 20142 min read10 People Who Want To Be Forgotten By Google, From An Attempted Murderer To A CyberstalkerWho wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...
Fahad HMay 1, 20143 min readYahoo Ditches “Do Not Track”: Lack Of Standards Too ConfusingYahoo announced Wednesday that it will no longer adhere to Do Not Track browser signals, further compromising the effectiveness of the...
Fahad HApr 30, 20141 min readGoogle Says It Will No Longer Scan & Collect Data From Student Gmail Accounts For Ad PurposesThe decision by Google comes after a recent lawsuit against the company, claiming Google’s practice of scanning student Gmail accounts...
Fahad HApr 30, 20142 min readAfter Bitter Fight, Industry To Embrace “Browser Choice” (AKA Do Not Track)The online advertising industry has apparently done an about-face on “Do Not Track” (DNT). According to AdWeek the Digital Advertising...
