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Siri's Supposed Privacy Glitch: It's A Feature, Not A Bug
Every time you ask Siri a question, the data remains on Apple’s servers for two years, Apple told Wired earlier this week. It’s a revelation that raises concerns about privacy, which isn’t exactly...
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EFF: Twitter Scores, Verizon Fails At Protecting User Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted its annual report on which Internet vendors do the most to help protect their users’s private information. And this year’s two best protectors by the...
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Apple's Privacy Record Sucks. Here's Why You Should Care
The next time you’re thinking about buying a new smartphone, there’s one more spec you might want to consider. If the FBI or the IRS wants to read your texts, will Apple hand them over? Would it...
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Google, Twitter, LinkedIn Earn Top Ratings on Data Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s annual Who Has Your Back? report lauds a number of major companies for their efforts to help preserve user privacy and report to the public the extent of their...
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Twitter Lawyer Tapped As First White House Chief Privacy Officer
The White House tapped Twitter legal director Nicole Wong as its first chief privacy officer, CNET reported. Wong, a Silicon Valley legal veteran, had only been at Twitter about six months; she was...
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How Facebook Graph Search Affects User Privacy
As Facebook Graph Search is being rolled out to it user base, it’s important to be aware of the “searchable” content you post. Public information is sure to show up in search queries and may create...
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How Facebook Graph Search Affects User Privacy by @DavidWallace
As Facebook Graph Search is being rolled out to it user base, it’s important to be aware of the “searchable” content you post. Public information is sure to show up in search queries and may create...
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Business Cloud Computing: Privacy Is Just As Important As Security
Guest author Luke Burns is a partner at Ascent Venture Partners. Security and privacy are often mentioned in the same breath, but when it comes to cloud computing, security tends to be the dominant...
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Is Online Privacy a Pipe Dream?
Remember years ago when the first noises were being made about protecting your data online, a lot of naysayers would respond “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to be afraid of”? Keep...
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Facebook To 6M Users: We Moved Fast And Broke Your Privacy
Facebook, one of whose core principles is “Move fast and break things,” appears to have done just that with the contact information of some six million users. The social network admitted that a complex...
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UK Joins Barrage Against Google’s Privacy Policy
Google is facing a little July heat in the U.K. this week, as the Information Commissioner’s Office there has ordered Google to update its unified privacy policy by September 20, or face fines of up...
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Google Faces £500,000 Fine if Privacy Policy Isn’t Changed by Sept. 20
Google appears unmoved by the threat of a potential fine of £500,000 from the Information Commissioner’s Office after it was told that it needs to update its privacy policies. The data watchdog says...
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Google to Pay $8.5 Million to Settle Search Query Privacy Case
Google agreed to give $8.5 million to a handful of nonprofits as well as revise the language within its privacy policy in order to settle a case that claimed Google leaked personal information of users...
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Keep Calm—Google Didn’t Just Screw Gmail User Privacy
If Google’s lawyers didn’t just lie through their teeth in federal court, then a user of Gmail may have “no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties”...
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Google Boldly Rejects UK Privacy Laws in Safari Snooping Case
Google has told the UK High Court that it isn’t subject to UK privacy laws because it’s a U.S. company. Google is in court because it danced around security settings on the Apple iPhone and collected...
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Groklaw Latest Casualty In Privacy Wars
You may not have heard of Pamela Jones, creator of the legal blog site known as Groklaw, but you may have heard of the legal case that she helped dismantle through patience, research and no small...
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Groklaw Shuts Down, A Self-Described Casualty In The Privacy Wars
You may not have heard of Pamela Jones, creator of the legal blog site known as Groklaw, but you may have heard of the legal case that she helped dismantle through patience, research and no small...
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Privacy Groups Want Judge To Reject Google’s $8.5 Million Settlement Over...
Last month, Google agreed to pay $8.5 million into a settlement fund over a class-action lawsuit by two searchers who accused the company of transmitting their personal information to third parties...
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Search Privacy Low On List Of Privacy Concerns For US Internet Users
Despite the fact that search history can be so revealing about people’s desires and interests, a new survey of US internet users finds that concern over search privacy — while significant — still ranks...
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Facebook Delays Privacy Policy Updates
Changes to Facebook’s data use policy announced a week ago will not be rolled out until next week, according to the LA Times. The proposed changes include adding profile photos to Facebook’s facial...
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