The drumbeat over digital privacy is getting louder. Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, stepped into the fray over the weekend, calling for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Apple and Google over reports that …
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Android and iPhone Photo Snooping: What You Need to Know
Google’s Privacy and Dashboard Options: Still a Tangled Web
Let’s get this out of the way: What Google’s missing — and fair warning to Google-philes, I’m unbending on this — is the equivalent of an opt-out panic button. With services like YouTube, Picassa, Gmail, GChat, Google+ and …
How Google’s New Privacy Policy Could Give Governments Greater Access to Your Data [UPDATE]
As a consumer, I’m not too concerned about Google’s new privacy policy. I don’t mind cookies tracking me — I’d rather see targeted ads than the garish, random banner ads of the ’90s — and my life will be a lot easier once …
Google’s New Privacy Policy: 5 Ways to Minimize Your Online Exposure
Google just rolled out a streamlined privacy policy that consolidates your personal information for use across various Google-owned services. Despite some criticism and accusations of an Orwellian Big Brother scenario, the …
New Google Privacy Policy May Violate European Law
Google is facing some new flack for its new privacy policy — set to be rolled out on March 1 — after the French data protection authority said the new policy appears to violate EU law.
New Poll Reveals Facebook Users More Privacy-Savvy than Ever
President Obama isn’t the only one taking online privacy seriously. According to a new poll from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, social network users were far more likely to take steps to protect their privacy in 2011 …
Coming Soon: Privacy Warnings on Mobile Apps
Thanks to the state of California, smartphone apps will soon have to tell you in advance what they plan to do with your personal data.
California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris reached an agreement with Apple, Google, …
Google’s Safari Privacy Snafu: Just Not Feeling the Outrage
I’m probably supposed to be mortified by Google’s latest privacy blunder. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google found a loophole in Apple’s Safari browser — both on desktops and iOS devices — that allowed the search …
Twitter Has iPhone Users’ Address Books, Too
After a developer discovered that the Path social-networking app was silently uploading iPhone users’ address books to its servers, a whole lot of other shoes — that is, other apps doing similar things — started to …
Would You Give Up Your Internet Privacy to Google for $25? (UPDATE)
If you’re not shy about letting Google know about all the websites you visit and how you use them, the company may have a proposition for you.
Google is offering $5 Amazon gift cards for participating in a panel called Google …
On Facebook, ‘Friends of Friends’ Could Mean ‘Hundreds of Thousands’
You may not think you’re sharing with many people when using Facebook’s “Friends of Friends” privacy setting, but two degrees of separation actually goes a long way.
According to a new Pew study, Facebook users who share with …