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Extension Lets You Know If Google Is Spying On You
Google has also come under scrutiny from Consumer Watchdog, which has said that the Energy and Commerce Committee must conduct hearings into Google privacy violations, with information coming to light about Google's classified contracts with the US government. Consumer Watchdog suggests that Google has been fibbing.
Continue reading...Liveblog: Wrapping up the Senate privacy hearing
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The three-hour hearing on Online Consumer Privacy has just come to a close, but unfortunately nothing substantive has emerged. Senators asked the two panels questions that were fed to them by their staff, and, when responses came from Google & Facebook that were conciliatory-sounding enough, the Senators refused, or perhaps more likely did not know how, to ask follow-up questions that might have actually taken us somewhere.
Continue reading...Liveblog: Google still “investigating” Wi-Spy activities
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Google Privacy Engineering Lead Dr. Alma Whitten told the Committee that the company was "conducting investigations" into why its Street View cars gathered communications from home WiFi networks.
Continue reading...Liveblog: FTC chairman endorses “opt-in”
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz endorsed an opt-in framework for privacy policies on the internet over an opt-out one in response to a question by Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz endorsed an opt-in framework for privacy policies on the internet over an opt-out one in response to a question by Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV).
Continue reading...Liveblogging online privacy hearing
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Today I will be liveblogging the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on Consumer Online Privacy. It is the first hearing on this subject by a full committee.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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