Search Engines and Privacy
U.S. Congressman Joe Barton Quizzes Google on Privacy
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Rep. 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 advocate […]
Ask.com Releases AskEraser, A New Privacy Switch
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007The 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 information is […]
Google Makes Official Announcement Favoring Global Privacy Laws
Friday, September 14th, 2007Peter 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 after […]
Google Calls for International Privacy Laws - Proactive or Preemptive?
Friday, September 14th, 2007Google, increasingly under fire for its extensive collecting of user information is calling today for international privacy laws.
The proposal follows the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework, which has been endorsed by many of the APEC nations, including Australia and Hong Kong, but not all. China, for instance, does not endorse it, Fleischer […]
Google Video Explains What Information Google Collects When You Search
Thursday, September 13th, 2007Here is one of Google’s instructional videos which explains how and why Google collects information when you search.
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