Tag Archive | "Privacy"
Google ‘definitions’ offer interesting insight into Internet giant
Struggling to find the definition for a word? Simply type "define: XXXX", where XXXX is the word you're asking about, into Google's search box. Over at the New Yorker in an article called "Don't Be Evil," Simon Rich notes Google's ability to serve up definitions. Then he has a little fun.
Continue reading...FTC chair raises “Do Not Track Me” idea; Congressional support grows
Friday, October 8, 2010
Support for Do Not Track Me legislation is growing in Washington with the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission telling ABC's Good Morning America on Friday that "one of the things we are thinking about is a Do Not Track List."
Continue reading...Google Called Chicken for Dodging Privacy Debate
Thursday, September 30, 2010
The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is broadcasting Jumbotron video ads all this week in the heart of New York's Times Square to mock Google as a big chicken for dodging a privacy debate.
Continue reading...New Times Square ad targets Google for failure to debate privacy
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog has placed a digital advertisement in Times Square calling Internet giant Google “chicken” for its failure to accept the public interest group’s challenge to debate measures to protect consumers’ online privacy. The ad is running during "AdWeek" in New York City, at which Google has a major presence.
Continue reading...As governments tap user data, Google transparency lags
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Amidst a surge in governmental requests for private user data, Google’s openness effort is lagging, as the release of Google's second transparency report shows. The report, released Tuesday, is a welcome sign of the search engine’s commitment to openness, but it is not a big improvement over the initial report last April.
Continue reading...Promise of ad industry self-regulation falls flat
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
I was at Google's DC headquarters yesterday afternoon for the first event of AdWeek 2010 - the advertising industry's annual conference in DC. I don't know if one company always dominates the event, but this year seems to be an all-Google affair. As the only advertiser that's a "platinum sponsor," Google hosted, sat on, or was the topic of five panels -- more indication that Google is king in the online ad world.
Continue reading...Three reasons to turn off creepy Google Instant (and how to do it)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Google Instant is not for me. When I search, I don’t want Google to know where I am or what I like or to tell me things it thinks I am interested in. I don’t want a for-profit corporation to be what Sergey Brin wants Google to be – “the third half of your brain.”
Continue reading...Dear Google: Do Not Track Me
Friday, September 17, 2010
“That’s kind of a fundamental human right,” argued John Simpson, an advocate with Consumer Watchdog. “The books that people have been taking out of the library are not something that’s shared, and librarians have fought to maintain that. Generally, you can’t go in and say, ‘What’s my wife been reading on her library card? What’s my son been reading on our library card?’ It’s private. In the same way, the Internet is a great source of information, and people ought to be able to consider that their activity online is private in the same way. The fact of the matter is that it’s not right now."
Continue reading...Google engineer’s privacy problems should spur Internet giant to answer four key questions about users’ privacy, Consumer Watchdog says
Thursday, September 16, 2010
SANTA MONICA, CA -- The consumer group that recently launched a popular online animated satire of Google’s privacy problems embodied in an ice cream truck said the revelation that a Google engineer tracked children down shows that private information is never safe if it is in Google’s hands. Consumer Watchdog called on Google to publicly answer some basic questions about how effectively it protects consumers’ privacy.
Continue reading...Engineer’s abuse validates ice cream truck video; Google needs to answer questions
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sometimes satire becomes more true than anyone ever could imagine happening. News this week shows our video touted in Times Square and viewed more than 330,000 times is right on the mark. CEO Eric Schmidt is driving the Google ice cream truck and an engineer in the back has been invading kids' privacy.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
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