Google Simplifies Its Privacy Policies

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Privacy Policy

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This policy sets out the basis on which your personal data will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your…
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Google to simplify privacy policy

Last Updated on Monday, 6 September 2010 12:40 Written by External Post Monday, 6 September 2010 12:40

Google is updating and simplifying its privacy policies to make them more transparent and understandable. But there is to be no change to the company’s privacy practices, Mike Yang, Google associate general counsel wrote in a blog post. Most privacy
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Facebook gives users’ names to advertisers

Last Updated on Friday, 21 May 2010 12:20 Written by External Post Friday, 21 May 2010 12:20

Facebook has been giving advertisers data that they can use to discover users’ names and locations, contrary to its privacy policy. The dominant social network tells users it won’t share their details without consent, but according to the
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The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 May 2010 06:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 13 May 2010 06:20

Facebook’s new privacy policy requires users to go through a complex opt-out procedure if they wish to keep their information private.
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Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 May 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 8 May 2010 10:40

Hugh Pickens writes ‘Cnet reports that Daphne Keller, a senior policy counsel at Google, says ACTA has ‘metastasized’ from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an sweeping international legal framework for copyright and the
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Rosetta Stone’s Google trademark suit dismissed

Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Friday, 30 April 2010 02:40

Google has prevailed in another lawsuit over its policy of allowing advertisers that don’t own certain trademarks to purchase AdWords ads generated by those trademarks.
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Facebook Retroactively Makes More User Data Public

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:40

mjn writes ‘In yet another backtrack from their privacy policy, Facebook has decided to retroactively move more information into the public, indexable part of profiles. The new profile parts made public are: a list of things users have become ‘fans’ of
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Facebook warns of more privacy policy changes

Last Updated on Monday, 29 March 2010 12:40 Written by External Post Monday, 29 March 2010 12:40

Facebook is planning to make further changes to its privacy policy to prepare for new services, including sharing information with third parties. In a carefully worded blog post, deputy general counsel for Facebook, Michael Richter, said Facebook is
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US Gov’t. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 February 2010 03:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 28 February 2010 03:00

Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. ‘According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama’s top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government’s policy of
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