There is a very disturbing trend in the world of corporate terms and conditions. Consumers (and small merchants) are increasingly being...

updated its terms of service (TOS) yesterday to make more explicit the fact that it scans Gmail for the purpose of matching email content...

Major internet sites now seem to suffer routine data breaches. Over the past several months, we’ve learned that multiple major retailers...

almost certain death. A new report will add to the chorus calling for the end of third-party cookies as an online tracking tool. The...

seeks US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) review of a US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, which affirmed a lower court denial of Google’s...

Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has cleared a radio ad attacking Google’s privacy practices against complaints that it amounted to...

For just over a year, Microsoft has been attacking Google over email privacy. Consumers are getting “Scroogled” by a Google that doesn’t...

constitutes illegal “wiretapping.” Google is reportedly trying to keep confidential many of the details of its internal processes and...

There’s a massive gap between marketers’ increasingly aggressive use of data and consumers’ desire not to be tracked and targeted. This...

As expected, the home page of Google France now carries a notification to users that Google was fined for privacy violations relating to...

imposition of a fine by the French National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties (CNIL) for violating consumer privacy, Google...

Twitter applauded the agreement made last week between the Department of Justice and various communication providers allowing greater...

was fined for violating French privacy rules with its “unified” privacy policy. The French National Commission for Computing and Civil...

filed a complaint with the FTC over Google’s recent rollout of a feature that lets Gmail users contact Google+ users without knowing the...

Yahoo has now joined Google in making all searches people do automatically go through a secure server, to help prevent eavesdropping by...

a range of reactions but many critics contend he didn’t go far enough. The proposed reforms also probably don’t help the tech...

In the process of the investigation, Canada’s privacy watchdog also found Google’s automated ad review system to have “demonstrable...

scrapping parts of its Sponsored Stories ad product — the ads that show what other users “Like.”  It turns out, the same day a Colorado...

With the NSA spying scandal and a brewing transatlantic privacy dispute in the background, Google was given the maximum fine, 150,000...

The companies are Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL and Twitter. Others will likely follow their lead and join the...