Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, has written an open letter to Google outlining "Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative." Highlights include: Increasingly, Internet users are becoming highly sensitized to both perceived and real risks to their privacy…
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Search Engine Watch speculates that Google might start using WHOIS information in their ranking of web pages. A recent patent application filed by Google, Information retrieval based on historical data, hints at the possible use of domain information in the…
Read More Google to Rank Results Based on Domain Name Information?
At a panel on Internet Censorship in China at the Computers Freedom and Privacy conference, Google's senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin a set of principles to help Google cope with censorship in China and elsewhere: Disclose censorship to users. Google's…
Google is being sued for profiting from child pornography: Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged in a complaint filed Thursday that Google has been taking in billions of dollars by allowing child pornography and…
CIO.com features this column about how the reach of search engines shatters the myth of "security through obscurity": A month or so ago, I was on the phone with Leonard Fuld, who’s known for his work in competitive intelligence, about…
According to the New York Times, Google has been expressing concerns about the fact that Internet Explorer 7’s search box will ship with Microsoft’s MSN Search as the default search engine: Google, which only recently began beefing up its lobbying…
Read More Don’t be Hypocritical: Google Upset at MSFT’s Default Browser
I recently discovered Nicholas Carr's excellent blog Rough Type. Two recent posts are worth noting. First, he comments on the Google AdSense policy of only paying publishers when they earn more than $100 in their AdSense account: Google doesn't seem…
Part of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's justification for being complicit with China's censorship of search engine results is that Google does the same thing in Germany and France, so what's the big deal with time around. Consider this recent statement:Asked…
Read More China vs. Germany: Comparing Google’s Censorship Practices
MSNBC has an article today where Google defends its cooperation with Chinese censorship. Choice quotes from CEO Eric Schmidt include:"We believe that the decision that we made to follow the law in China was absolutely the right one," Schmidt said…
With tools like Google Toolbar, Google Analytics, Web Accelerator, Adsense and Adwords, Google has a variety of means of collecting information about where users browse (with Toolbar & Accelerator, they can track your browsing off of Google properties as well).…
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