privacy

News.blog: Facebook updates privacy, adds IM

News Social network Facebook will roll out more extensive privacy controls today, as well as an instant-messaging service soon after, representatives from the company announced during a press briefing at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto...

Tags: messaging, party, friend, profiles

19 March 2008, 9:11

Google boss defends privacy policies

News Google chief executive Eric Schmidt acknowledged that his company's search engine can ruffle privacy feathers, but said the company's technology doesn't violate the company's founding motto, "Don't be evil.

20 May 2005, 10:26

Gamers hacked off at Blizzard's 'invasion of privacy'

News Players sometimes cry foul about such practices, though, arguing that a game developer's need to keep out hackers doesn't outweigh customers' rights to privacy. Nevertheless, the history of MMORPGs suggests that sometimes game publishers...

15 August 2005, 10:27

Google's Street View faces privacy concerns

News There could be privacy concerns if the people are identifiable, because the images are available to anyone who can log onto the internet. ICO was also waiting to hear from Simon Davies, the director of Privacy

Tags: face, privacy, international, street

9 July 2008, 10:03

News.blog: Facebook probed over privacy

News The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reportedly taken this up as a major privacy concern and plans to investigate it further. Maybe they were pulled voluntarily due to embarrassing content, or involuntarily due to inappropriate...

Tags: profile, profiles, networking, deleted

23 January 2008, 9:05

Google library search raises privacy issues

News A contract between Google and the University of Michigan released publicly on Friday contains no provisions for protecting the privacy of people who will eventually be able to search the school's vast library collection over the Internet.

20 June 2005, 10:34

Facebook zooms in on privacy control

News The secret of Facebook's success, and its future viability, hinges on how the social-network site protects privacy, taming the anything-goes intrusiveness of what might as well be known as the World Wild Web.

16 July 2007, 10:58

How search engines rank on privacy

News The answers suggest that, based on the questions asked, Ask.com was the most protective of user privacy. Google avoids behavioural targeting, but, after 18 months, it performs a partial anonymisation of users' Internet protocol addresses -- an...

14 August 2007, 10:05

iTunes update raises privacy concerns

News A new version of Apple's popular iTunes software, released on Tuesday, is drawing barbs from privacy advocates for sending information about computer users' playlists back to Apple. Macintosh users have typically not been exposed to many of the...

13 January 2006, 10:05

Apple moves to quell iTunes privacy fears

News Following a wave of privacy concerns last week, Apple has begun prominently notifying customers about a new recommendation feature in its iTunes software, as well as providing a simpler way to turn it off.

19 January 2006, 8:51

Online private eyes draw privacy complaints

News Privacy advocates worry that the ease with which that type of information can get into the wrong hands could lead to more identity theft and fraud, harassment or even stalking incidents. There have been a number of cases where investigators have...

19 July 2005, 9:54

Google spells out privacy policy on YouTube

News Google has posted a video on YouTube that explains aspects of its privacy policy. Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy counsel, said in a blog post on Wednesday that Google had launched the video to explain "cookies, IP addresses and logs" to...

10 August 2007, 10:17

Google must allay privacy fears, say analysts

News Privacy advocates say information collected at Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN, Amazon's A-9 and other search and ecommerce companies poses similar risks. Google is poised to trump Microsoft in its potential to invade privacy, and it's very hard for many...

15 July 2005, 11:27

News.blog: Google sued for invading privacy with Street View

News From the I-can't-believe-it-took-this-long file, a couple in Pittsburgh has sued Google, claiming that the Street View on Google Maps is a reckless invasion of their privacy. Concerns over invasion of privacy have been discussed since Google first...

Tags: privacy, google, address, street

7 April 2008, 10:09

Search engines race to be privacy hero

News Microsoft and Ask.com also are proposing an industry effort to create voluntary standards for protecting consumer privacy with search and online ads, a move that is probably spurred by Google's plan to acquire a leader in the online ad market.

23 July 2007, 10:23