New York: Facebook is letting its nearly 1 billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy beginning on Friday. This is the second time Facebook Inc. is letting users vote on policy changes. The first time was in 2009 when Facebook was a much smaller, privately held company with about 200 million users. The vote is over updates the company announced in May, a week before its initial public...
10:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012
San Francisco: Twitter will honour requests from users who do not want their online behaviour tracked, the company said on Thursday, in contrast with Web companies such Google Inc and Facebook Inc whose business models rely heavily on collecting user data. Twitter said it will officially support "Do Not Track," a standardised privacy initiative that has been heavily promoted by the US Federal Trade Commission, online privacy advocates and Mozilla,...
08:02 PM, May 18, 2012
Houston: Social networking site Facebook has unveiled changes to its new terms of service, tweaking earlier drafts in an apparent effort to ease users' concerns about privacy and how their information is used. Based on the feedback from users, Facebook released a new set of proposed changes on Friday and offered more detailed explanation of its revisions. Since 2009 the social network has taken a unique approach with its "Statements...
10:37 AM, Apr 21, 2012
The Abhishek Manu Singhvi CD episode raises fundamental questions about politicians and their right to privacy. ...
08:50 PM, Apr 18, 2012
San Francisco: Google is offering to provide a monthly report to people who want to keep track of their activities on some of its most popular services. The tool unveiled Wednesday includes a breakdown of Gmail correspondences and search requests entered while logged in. The summary also lists the Web browsers and operating systems used during logged-in sessions. Google Inc. also is reporting the countries where logins originated. These details...
10:41 AM, Mar 29, 2012
Beijing: Smartphones like iPhones may not be well equipped to protect the owner's privacy as a woman in China found out the hard way. Photos and other data deleted from these phones can be easily recovered using a software, the Shanghai Daily reported Friday. A twenty-year-old woman was recently shocked to find her naked photos at a store in Ningbo city in eastern China. She had taken her phone to...
12:45 PM, Mar 24, 2012
New York: Facebook is warning employers not to demand the passwords of job applicants, saying that it's an invasion of privacy that opens companies to legal liabilities. The social networking company is also threatening legal action against those who violate its long-standing policy against sharing passwords. An Associated Press story this week documented cases of job applicants who are being asked, at the interview table, to reveal their Facebook passwords...
11:57 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Houston: Majority of netizens disapproved of search engines keeping track of their searches, regarding it as an invasion of privacy, and also disliked targeted advertising, a new study has claimed. About two-thirds of search engine users disapprove of the collection of information on their searches for the purpose of personalising their future search results, says Pew Internet & American Life Project, Search Engine Use study, 2012. An equal proportion of...
12:06 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New York: Like it or not, your relationship with Google is becoming a lot more intimate. The company recently expanded its ability to combine data from its various services to create a highly detailed profile on you. Google says it's doing that to simplify its privacy policy and improve your experience on sites such as Gmail, Picasa, Google Plus and YouTube. But there's a business reason, too. Google gets a...
10:36 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Update: A day after this IBNLive story criticising the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways' move making vehicle registration details available via SMS, the service has been restricted to registered mobile numbers only. Unauthorised mobile numbers trying to access the service, get a message that says, "Sorry your Mobile no is Not Authorised for this service." But the Web-based search is still available. New Delhi: Saw someone zipping past in...
10:26 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Google's much talked about changes to their privacy policies will come into effect from Thursday. ...
01:48 PM, Mar 01, 2012
San Francisco: If you're amazed - and maybe even a little alarmed - about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself. Beginning Thursday, Google will operate under a streamlined privacy policy that enables the Internet's most powerful company to dig even deeper into the lives of its more than 1 billion users. Google says the changes will make it easier for consumers to understand how it collects...
10:25 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Brussels: Google's new privacy policy appears to violate the European Union's data protection rules, France's regulator said on Tuesday, just two days before the new guidelines are set to come into force. Google announced its new privacy policy with much fanfare last month. The rules, which are set to come into force on Thursday, regulate how the Web giant uses the enormous amounts of personal data its collects through its...
01:37 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Google will now be allowed to maintain your complete profile and your data will get tracked and stored by the company. ...
09:51 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Washington: The White House on Thursday proposed a "bill of rights" that would give consumers greater online privacy protection and could eventually give the government greater powers to police Internet firms such as Google Inc and Facebook. While the privacy bill of rights does not impose any immediate new obligations on online companies, President Barack Obama said it was part of a broader plan to give Americans more control over...
01:24 PM, Feb 23, 2012
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