Google Agonises On Privacy As Advertising Rivals Emerge

France's national information watchdog, the "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" or CNIL, is again interrogating Google over its data storage practices. The regulator, acting on behalf of the EU's...

Google said it is working on a way of letting innocent people with wireless networks opt out of the system it uses to locate mobile phone users. The outfit is being leaned on by Eurocrats who take a more robust line towards...

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has criticised Google for failing to do more to protect the privacy of Internet users, in whose data the advertising firm sees an income stream. In a report today the ICO said Google...

Google has added two new tools to its Google Analytics services in an effort to prove it cares about user privacy. Google Analytics gives advertisers and marketeers information about specific web sites based on the browsing...

Apparently adhering to its popular “be no evil” motto, the search behemoth Google is working on a plug-in for its signature web analytics service that will enable users to opt out of being tracked by the service, it...

Google has vowed to provide its users with more pertinent ads through what it calls interest-based advertising which some have already compared to controversial ad-targeting company Phorm. In a blog post written by Susan...

HTC/T-Mobile/Google's G1 smartphone is finally out and reviews are rapidly cropping around but already, there are a number of flaws, some small, others worryingly massive, in Google's strategy that have been made even more...

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 recently released Friend Connect, a system which allows a user of social networking sites to export details from within those services to other websites or services which are part of the Google system. Facebook, though,...

The software giant hopes to influence US consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission in its consideration of whether or not online advertisers should be governed by self-regulatory principles.Microsoft has proposed some...

European regulators have given the green light to Microsoft to acquire online advertising powerhouse Doubleclick for $3.1 billion, an acquisition that would be a boon for advertisers but a harrowing thought for privacy advocates....

Google's acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick has been passed by European competition regulators and has been completed. The deal had already been passed by competition authorities in the US.The European Commission...

Privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner is investigating advertising technology company Phorm over a deal it has cut with the UK's top internet service providers.The deal allows ISPs a cut of ad revenue in return for...

Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen from Blogoscoped wrote about the new Google Health Logging page that has appeared on Google website. The link provided, www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=health, is not working....