Facebook on NYT data sharing report: We did nothing wrong
After today’s publication of an article in the New York Times detailing an investigation that uncovered more than 270 pages of Facebook’s...
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EFF Launches New Do Not Track Standard With Coalition Of Web Companies
In reaction to the digital advertising industry’s inability to come to a consensus on how to or whether to adhere to users’ “Do Not...
Survey: 99 Percent Of Consumers Will Share Personal Info For Rewards, But Want Brands To Ask Permiss
Consumers repeatedly say in surveys that they want more personalization — but also more privacy. This is an apparent contradiction. But...
Google Tells Users It Scans Their Email As Microsoft Puts “Scroogled” To Bed
updated its terms of service (TOS) yesterday to make more explicit the fact that it scans Gmail for the purpose of matching email content...
Microsoft Calls For International Conference On Government Surveillance
a range of reactions but many critics contend he didn’t go far enough. The proposed reforms also probably don’t help the tech...
Microsoft’s Latest Scroogled Target: Google’s “Gspam” Ads That Look Like Ema
Or, as Microsoft is calling it today, “Gspam.” That’s the term they’re using for those ads that look like emails in Gmail (which, last I...
Google, Facebook In Transparency Battle Over PRISM Disclosures
disclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...
Scope of Alleged Spying On Americans’ Internet Activity Massive, “Beyond Orwellian”
Those data, it has been alleged, come in large part from direct access to the servers of most of the Internet’s biggest brands: Google,...
Study: Millennials More Comfortable Sharing Personal Data For Targeted Ads & Relevant Offers
A recent survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Digital Future and Bovitz Inc., revealed “Millennials” (those 18-35) have a...
Microsoft’s “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of Users
Scroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How’s that been working out?...
EU Takes 10 Days To Question Google Privacy Change; After Two Months, Finally Looks At MicrosoftR
Microsoft’s change happened on October 19. It was announced with little notice to consumers. Despite allowing for cross-platform sharing...
Microsoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To Care
This is a long article, so let me say from the start that I don’t think consumers need to fear either the change Google did or the one...
Google: “Impractical” To Comply With IE’s P3P Privacy Controls; Microsoft, Faceboo
taking fire for Microsoft accusing it of overriding Internet Explorer privacy controls. But Google’s now out with a response: the...
Microsoft: Google Is Bypassing Internet Explorer Privacy Settings, Too
ignoring privacy settings on Apple’s Safari web browser, Microsoft says Google is doing the same thing with Internet Explorer. Microsoft...
No, You Don’t Need To Fear The Google Privacy Changes: A Reality Check
Google’s new privacy policy changes happen. Microsoft is running an ad campaign encouraging switching to its services as safer or more...
Google “Myth Busts” Microsoft’s Privacy Claims
Microsoft’s ad campaign that slams Google’s forthcoming privacy policy changes with a mythbusting blog post. Here’s a look at the myths...
Microsoft Slams Google Privacy Changes With “Putting People First” Ad Campaign
Google’s biggest threat was Google itself. His words are ringing true, as Google arch-nemesis Microsoft is seizing on Google’s recent...
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