Fahad HDec 19, 20182 min readFacebook on NYT data sharing report: We did nothing wrongAfter today’s publication of an article in the New York Times detailing an investigation that uncovered more than 270 pages of Facebook’s...
Fahad HAug 3, 20152 min readEFF Launches New Do Not Track Standard With Coalition Of Web CompaniesIn reaction to the digital advertising industry’s inability to come to a consensus on how to or whether to adhere to users’ “Do Not...
Fahad HJun 2, 20153 min readSurvey: 99 Percent Of Consumers Will Share Personal Info For Rewards, But Want Brands To Ask PermissConsumers repeatedly say in surveys that they want more personalization — but also more privacy. This is an apparent contradiction. But...
Fahad HApr 15, 20142 min readGoogle Tells Users It Scans Their Email As Microsoft Puts “Scroogled” To Bedupdated its terms of service (TOS) yesterday to make more explicit the fact that it scans Gmail for the purpose of matching email content...
Fahad HJan 21, 20142 min readMicrosoft Calls For International Conference On Government Surveillancea range of reactions but many critics contend he didn’t go far enough. The proposed reforms also probably don’t help the tech...
Fahad HAug 9, 20131 min readMicrosoft’s Latest Scroogled Target: Google’s “Gspam” Ads That Look Like EmaOr, 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...
Fahad HJun 15, 20133 min readGoogle, Facebook In Transparency Battle Over PRISM Disclosuresdisclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...
Fahad HJun 7, 20133 min readScope 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,...
Fahad HApr 22, 20131 min readStudy: Millennials More Comfortable Sharing Personal Data For Targeted Ads & Relevant OffersA recent survey conducted by the USC Annenberg Center for Digital Future and Bovitz Inc., revealed “Millennials” (those 18-35) have a...
Fahad HFeb 14, 201312 min readMicrosoft’s “Scroogled” Campaign Against Gmail Wins 0.002% Of UsersScroogled” campaign portraying Gmail as a privacy monster that reads your emails for ad targeting purposes. How’s that been working out?...
Fahad HDec 18, 20122 min readEU Takes 10 Days To Question Google Privacy Change; After Two Months, Finally Looks At MicrosoftRMicrosoft’s change happened on October 19. It was announced with little notice to consumers. Despite allowing for cross-platform sharing...
Fahad HOct 11, 201211 min readMicrosoft To Make Same Privacy Change Google Was Attacked For; No One Seems To CareThis 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...
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 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...
