Google wants to get to know you – more. Although widely critised for their privacy policies, including a stinging rebuke from Privacy International, Google is mounting a PR campaign of epic proportions to convince web surfers, legislators, and the public in general that the world will be a better place by the search giant knowing [...]
Over at Loose Wire Blog, Jeremy Wagstaff lists all the possible private information that Google may know about us as a result of their acquisition of Jaiku, the micro-blogging platform. It’s a significant list and one that gives us pause for concern. However it may say much about attitudinal shifts in values that users of [...]
Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web spam team is not taking Privacy International’s accusation of poor privacy practices lying down. In a fiery and enthusiastic post on his private blog, Cutts claims that PI simply walked past companies that were handling privacy poorly, and focussed instead on a company that is doing something positive about [...]
Google wants to get to know you – more. Although widely critised for their privacy policies, including a stinging rebuke from Privacy International, Google is mounting a PR campaign of epic proportions to convince web surfers, legislators, and the public in general that the world will be a better place by the search giant knowing [...]
Competition is a wonderful thing. It encourages innovation, keeps prices in check, and it brings to our world new and exciting products that create benefits to humanity. But competition and innovation don’t always work for everyone, and all too often the consequences of rapid product development are unnecessary risks to society. And it is this [...]
Google-DoubleClick deal seen winning approval | CNET News.com: “Antitrust experts predict that Google’s purchase of advertising company DoubleClick for $3.1 billion will be approved by U.S. regulators despite vehement opposition from competitors Microsoft and Yahoo.”
EU privacy body to take months on Google probe | CNET News.com: “The European Union’s data watchdog will take another few months to decide whether Google or other Web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a participant in the watchdog’s meeting said on Wednesday.” I’m writing an essay on the broader context of [...]