Apple CEO Tim Cook’s open letter to users about privacy has sparked lots of discussion. The letter is appropriate given the recent iCloud...

The U.S. FTC announced today that Yelp agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a complaint brought for violations of the Children’s Online...

European regulators have reportedly sent an unusual “second wave” of questions to a range of companies as part of its antitrust review of...

According to a new survey from privacy management tool MyLife (above), more people trust Google than the U.S. government with their...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, released its first ever transparency report  today, claiming it...

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems wants Facebook to pay for breaching European data protection law, and has filed a lawsuit against...

Google’s founders, Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and its entire board have been named as criminal defendants in a case in Thailand. The...

The large majority of consumers have not had any experience with indoor location or indoor marketing on mobile devices. However there are...

Italy is the latest country to issue what amounts to an ultimatum to Google to change its privacy practices or face fines (up to $1...

In the wake of the the Right to Be Forgotten controversy in Europe, Survey Monkey has conducted a survey of online adults (n=210) to...

wary of marketers and concerned about tracking and privacy. However, they also want more personalization, relevant ads and are happy to...

The 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...

Google’s out with two big privacy pushes when it comes to Gmail today, aimed at protecting your email from prying eyes. Wait, isn’t...

Tiny search engine DuckDuckGo scored a huge victory yesterday when Apple announced DuckDuckGo would be an option included in future...

explained last night by Danny Sullivan, the Right to Be Forgotten has gone into effect in Europe, and Google has put up its “please...

announced earlier this month that it was walking away from “Do Not Track” (DNT), at least for the time being. That action seemed to...

Who wants things removed from Google under the newly declared “right to be forgotten” in the European Union? A convicted cyberstalker, an...

Yahoo announced Wednesday that it will no longer adhere to Do Not Track browser signals, further compromising the effectiveness of the...

The decision by Google comes after a recent lawsuit against the company, claiming Google’s practice of scanning student Gmail accounts...

The online advertising industry has apparently done an about-face on “Do Not Track” (DNT). According to AdWeek the Digital Advertising...