Privacy News

Facebook Privacy Stance Raises Federal Eyebrows

27th January 2010

Facebook changed user privacy settings on their site late last year, classifying a lot of user data by default as “publicly available information”. The FTC has been alerted and are now probing the matter. More »

Google Latitude Ushers New Era In Mobile Social Activity

6th February 2009

Google Latitude, the latest service from the UK’s favourite brand, was launched this week. Users can find out where their friends and contacts are and can send and receive status messages via their mobile handsets. More »

Are Employees Responsible For Content On Their Websites?

5th February 2009

Four Google executives are facing criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in Italy due to a video that was displayed on YouTube. More »

Yahoo! Appeases Privacy Advocates

23rd December 2008

Only last week we had reported that Yahoo! had said that they would store user data for a period of 13 months. In quite a sudden about-turn they have now decided to delete the personal data from their data bases in 3 months. After 3 months, all the user log data as well as data from page views, page clicks and ad views and clicks will be deleted. More »

EU And Search Engines Battle Over Privacy Laws

18th December 2008

It is a well known fact that search engines retain data regarding the searches conducted by their clients for a long period of time. While they may have their reasons for doing so, the EU has taken objection to this practice, as it affects the privacy of users. More »