There's been a lot of talk about Google's launch of their new Web History product, an enhanced version of Google Search History that keeps track of every web page you’ve ever visited (with the help of the PageRank feature on…
Read More Google Web History: Not the Realm of Conspiracy Theorists
On the heels of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, Philipp Lenssen jumps ahead a few years to announce Google's inevitable purchase of the Internet itself. LOL MAY 12, 2017 - BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired…
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I'm much too busy right now to comment in detail on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, especially in light of the bad track record DoubleClick has in terms of user privacy online (Philipp Lensenn has a good archive…
Read More Google + DoubleClick = Privacy Enhancing Technologies?
I'm pleased to announce I will be moderating a panel discussion on "Privacy in Web Search" as part of the ITS Colloquium at NYU Law's Information Law Institute. The panelists are: Ramsey Homsany, Senior Counsel, Google Daniel Howe, Ph.D. Candidate,…
Adam Fields points to this disturbing revelation that ISPs are apparently selling their customer's clickstream data. The guilty ISPs apparently took the same "anonymization" seminar as AOL, merely replacing user names with User 1, User 2, etc. And what kind…
Read More Your Clickstream Data: 40 cents; Losing Your Privacy: Priceless
Google made a major announcement today that by the end of the year will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 -24 months: When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the…
Read More Google To “Anonymize” Personal Data after 18-24 Months
Boing Boing has two good posts detailing how Google has been cooperating with Mumbai and Brazilian authorities to help censor content and track down offenders on their Orkut social networking service. In the Mumbai case: The Indian Express and other…
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has published an unofficial Google Censorship FAQ where he answers over 35 questions related to Google's censorship activities. Highlights include: What does Google censor? It depends on the country. In Germany, Google censors certain Nazi…
Here's a slick video by some German students about privacy concerns with Google's ability to collect personal information. Little heavy on conspiracy theories (Google DNA?), and totally lacking in any theoretical analysis (that's what my dissertation is for), but nice…
Pandia Search Engine News reports that the Norwegian Data Inspectorate, whose role is to protect persons from violation of their right to privacy through the processing of personal data, is investigating Google's information collecting practices. From Pandia's report: “Why do…
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