Rep. Joe Barton has questions for Google, as Declan McCullagh reports. A top Republican in the House of Representatives is demanding that Google answer a barrage of questions about privacy, some of which are related to the company’s proposed purchase of the DoubleClick advertising firm. Rep. Joe Barton, who has positioned himself as a privacy [...]
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U.S. Congressman Joe Barton Quizzes Google on Privacy
December 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Search Engines and Privacy
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Ask.com Releases AskEraser, A New Privacy Switch
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Search Engines and Privacy
The search engine Ask.com is making a proactive move. Ask.com will unveil on Tuesday a “privacy switch” that lets users completely erase their search queries and related data from the search engine’s servers. The new feature, dubbed AskEraser, is believed to mark the first time that Internet users have been given control over whether their [...]
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Google Makes Official Announcement Favoring Global Privacy Laws
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Search Engines and Privacy
Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, has posted the anticipated announcement on Google’s Public Policy Blog: The problem of international data flow and privacy is not new. Potential problems were identified as early as the 1980s. At that time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) established the first “fair information principles.” Twenty years [...]
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