European Parliament Plan To Monitor Internet Searches

Microsoft has confirmed that it will be slashing its data retention period from 18 months to six months as the result of an ongoing conversation with a number of privacy stakeholders worldwide. The change will occur over the next...

EDITORIAL: Visit any website and there's a good chance that it will send a cookie to your computer. But unless that cookie is essential, its delivery could become illegal under a strange new plan that has, very quietly, won EU...

Google will use a web user's location in its calculation of the best search results to publish, the company said. It will use a computer's internet protocol (IP) address to whittle down results.Privacy campaigners have been...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were involved in the decision, according to a Google executive. Protesters had said that the link was a legal requirement, but Google had said that it was not prepared to add more words...

A small black Opel car with a high roof-mounted camera and a Google logo was spotted by one Flickr user and by Channel 4 News, indicating that Google is gathering data for a London Steet View service.Google confirmed today that...

The deal only applies to the US and Canada at the moment and US authorities have said they will investigate it, but it is likely that European authorities would also examine the deal if it were extended to the EU.The agreement...

The search giant, whose own privacy policies are often controversial, told a senior politician that it supported the idea. Google possesses massive amounts of information on users of its search engine, email, mapping and other...

Google's global privacy chief told OUT-LAW last year that he does not see a need for a link on the search engine's homepage. Today a spokesman for the company maintained that the company's privacy policy is easy to find.The...

The head of Europe's privacy watchdogs said that he is still in negotiations with Google about a major data retention dispute and is confident that the search giant will change its policies.Google has claimed its data retention...

Google has accused European Union authorities of attempting to use antitrust laws to tackle privacy issues. The company was defending its proposed acquisition of online advertising company DoubleClick.The takeover has already...

Europe's top privacy regulator has said that European privacy laws will need to be overhauled in just five years' time. He also said that the rules governing which countries can be sent Europeans' data could be improved.Speaking...

European data protection officials will not pass verdict on Google's privacy policies until early 2008, an official has said. The Article 29 Working Party met this week and decided to delay issuing an opinion while it widened its...

The proposed $3.1 billion merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to "a massive violation of data privacy rights", a German privacy watchdog has warned.The Data Protection Commissioner...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe's data protection officials, according to Google's global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer said that its retention of user search data was "just...