Google Dashboard Offers New Privacy Controls
Nov 5, 2009 at 5:15am ET by Matt McGee
Google has launched a new privacy dashboard -- technically just called Google Dashboard -- that gives users quicker access to, and more control over, the personal information stored in Google's databases. The dashboard is a one-stop shop for managing this data and the settings that are associated with the Google products you use when signed in to your Google account.
"We recognize how important our users' trust is, so we're looking for ways to be more transparent," says Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google's Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety. "Over the last 11 years we've launched a [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Dashboard, Legal: Privacy, Top News
Twitter Not Giving Access To Private Tweets
Oct 20, 2009 at 3:44pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Is Twitter allowing search engines access to protected tweets or not? Not, Twitter tells me, though the company probably needs to do a bit more to prevent this type of confusion in the future.
The LA Times reported yesterday about a "Twitter hole" that it believed allowed Google special access to protected tweets, tweets made from Twitter accounts where owners have deliberately chosen not to have their tweets be made public.
Not so, said TechCrunch. The so-called protected tweets that the LA Times was finding in Google looked to be those made from before particular account holder [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: Privacy, Top News, Twitter
Report: Most People Don’t Want Online Tracking Even If It Means Relevant Ads Or Savings
Sep 30, 2009 at 8:10am ET by Greg Sterling
Get ready marketers: a credible new report with sweeping implications from the University of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley is likely to be the nail in the coffin of self regulation of online advertising. Specifically I'm talking about behavioral targeting, which largely concerns online display advertising but does marginally touch search at Yahoo and Google.
The NY Times discussed the report, released today:
The study’s authors hired a survey company to conduct interviews with 1,000 adult Internet users. The interview, which lasted about 20 minutes, included questions like “Please tell [...]
Filed in: Google: Legal, Google: Web History & Search History, Legal: General, Legal: Privacy, Search Ads: Behavioral Targeting, Yahoo: Legal
Is Google Using A Privacy Double Standard?
Sep 4, 2009 at 10:21am ET by Greg Sterling
There is a much longer post to be written on Google's privacy policies and its history of combatting or complying with government requests for information and those of third parties using the courts to get access to user data. But I'll take two recent items to illustrate the complexity and potential contradictions here.
Google was just ordered to turn over the identity of some Gmail users pursuant to a defamation lawsuit between a Miami-based developer and a newspaper publication that tied the developer to government corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands. According to an AP article:
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Filed in: Google: Legal, Legal: Privacy
Google Now Using You To Provide Traffic Data To Maps
Aug 25, 2009 at 1:40pm ET by Greg Sterling
Google is now using location-enabled mobile phones that have Maps for mobile installed to improve its real-time traffic data. According to the Google Blog:
If you use Google Maps for mobile with GPS enabled on your phone, that's exactly what you can do. When you choose to enable Google Maps with My Location, your phone sends anonymous bits of data back to Google describing how fast you're moving. When we combine your speed with the speed of other phones on the road, across thousands of phones moving around a city at any given time, we can get a pretty good picture of live traffic conditions. [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Mobile, Google: Outside US, Legal: Privacy, Top News
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