Prompted by Google's resistance to cluttering its homepage with a link to its privacy policy, I decided to take a quick tour of the major search engines to compare the relative visibility of their privacy policies. AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!…
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Google Wants You to Search for their Privacy Policy (and they get to record that query!)
I've long complained about how it takes at least 2 clicks to get to Google's privacy policy from its homepage (3 clicks if you count its new Privacy Center splash page). And that's only if you happen to click on…
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CFP ’08: Clay Shirky, Konstantinos Karachalios, and a Letter to the President
There have been some exciting developments as we near the Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on "Technology Policy ‘08": We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote on Friday lunch (5/23). (See my post…
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Reminder: Computers, Freedom, & Privacy: Technology Policy ‘08
The program for next month’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“ has been posted and features an excellent array of tutorials, plenaries and panels: Plenary Sessions Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive The 21st Century…
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Yale ISP’s “9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”
In preparation for next month's Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“, the Yale Information Society Project has released "9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration": 1. Privacy. Protect human dignity, autonomy, and privacy by providing…
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Google to “systematically” provide data on suspect Orkut users to Brazilian authorities
Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Google's social networking site Orkut, which is immensely popular in Brazil, is no exception. In 2006, I commented on Google's decision to comply with a Brazilian court order…
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Doctors Warn of Dangers of Storage of Health Records by MSFT / Google
The New York Times reports on commentary in the current New England Journal of Medicine where two doctors warn of the dangers of having large corporations like Microsoft or Google being in the business of storing patient medical records. Here's…
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More Details on Yahoo’s New Ad Sales System, AMP!
Yahoo has issued a press release on their new ad sales system, AMP! that provided a few new insights into this "powerful new online advertising platform." The New York Times broke this story earlier, which I blogged about here. Interestingly,…
Article 29 Working Party: Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines
The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has released their long-awaited "Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines" (PDF), something I've debated here. At first glance, it seems we're in agreement that the Data Protection Directive…
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Yahoo’s New Ad Sales System to Include Behavioral Targeting
The New York Times is reporting details of Yahoo's forthcoming new advertising system which will allow targeting of ads based on users' online activities: Yahoo said the system, called AMP and still months away from being ready, would greatly simplify…
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