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Privacy Blog Posts

Official Google Blog: Trimming our privacy policies

Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. ...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/trimming-our-privacy-policies.html

Google Streamlines Its Privacy Policy. Should Facebook Be Next?

Location-based service Echo Echo recently posted the above image to their blog in a (successful) attempt to garner some media attention as the debate around online privacy continues to rage. As extreme as their.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/03/google-facebook-privacy/

Google To Update, Shorten And De-Jargon Privacy Policies – Here's ...

Mike Yang, Google's Associate General Counsel, just published a post on the Google blog, informing users that the company is making its privacy policies shorter and easier to understand for non-lawyers. They are also making some other ...

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/03/google-privacy-policy-update/

Neowin.net - Google tweaks their privacy policies

News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support.

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-tweaks-their-privacy-policies

Google to Simplify Its Privacy Policies - NYTimes.com

Google will update its privacy policies next month to offer simpler, more transparent language, but a privacy expert worry that the changes are actually bad for consumers.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/google-to-simplify-its-privacy-policies/

Privacy News

Video lambasts Google on privacy - Special Broadcasting Service

A cartoon version of Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was shown cruising a residential neighbourhood in an ice cream ... Ads Preference Manager, Chrome incognito mode and 'off the record' Gmail chat." The ...

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1344177/Video-lambasts-Google-on-privacy

Google Settles Privacy Lawsuit for $8.5 Million - Wall Street Journal

had alleged the company violated privacy law in February by exposing their email contacts to users of Google Buzz, which is built into Gmail and borrows elements of Twitter and Facebook by allowing users to share ...

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/external/wsj/rss/SIG=12ih0lo4n/*http%3A/online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703946504575470510382073060.html?ru=yahoo

Advocacy Group Aims for Thought-Provoking, Ends Up with Ridiculous Google Privacy ... - Softpedia

The group has created a cartoon video depicting Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an evil ice cream man bent ... the group wants to push for the creation of a "Do Not Track Me" list which people would join if they didn't ...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Advocacy-Group-Aims-for-Though-Provoking-Ends-Up-with-Ridiculous-Google-Privacy-Video-155065.shtml

FairWarning to Host Webinar on the True Cost of Patient Privacy Breaches - Consumer Electronics Net

Hear from an attorney who has negotiated settlements ... Gainer represented Providence Health & Services in negotiations with the federal Department of Health and Human Services regarding claims that Providence ...

http://www.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1194892

Facebook locator raises privacy concerns - Everett Herald

NEW YORK -- Services based on your location, such as Foursquare, are popular in the tech-centric bubbles of Silicon Valley and New York City. But for many people, these services remain odd -- and potentially ...

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100829/BIZ/708299920

Memorial Hermann Selects FairWarning® for Privacy Breach Detection - Earthtimes

... solution provides patient privacy auditing for compliance with privacy regulations including ARRA HITECH, HIPAA, and others. FairWarning ® 2.9.2 enables healthcare organizations to monitor patient privacy ...

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/fairwarningreg-privacy-breach-detection,1443347.html

Facebook's new geotaggingbrings potential for abuse - Seattle Times

Facebook Places follows the introduction of geotagging to Twitter.com 's 100 million-plus users and on Foursquare, a mobile application that has attracted 3 million users who compete for "mayorships" by checking into ...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/homegarden/2012794823_geotags03.html

Calif. bill would protect privacy of FasTrak users - Dispatch

Drivers who use FasTrak or other automatic systems to pay tolls would enjoy more privacy under a bill passed Monday by the California Assembly ... Democratic Senator Joe Simitian of Palo Alto says there's no reason ...

http://www.the-dispatch.com/article/20100823/APN/1008231396

PeopleSmart Transforms the People Search Landscape With Focus on Privacy and ... - Earthtimes

this information has been highly fragmented," said Inflection CEO, Matthew Monahan . "We are committed ... and is funded by tier one venture capitalists Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. For more information,

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/with-focus-privacy-innovation,1445233.html

Canadians uneasy about Facebook privacy - Georgia Straight

... Facebook features, such as news feeds and photo albums, but also the hundreds of thousands of applications run through the site, including popular games like FarmVille ... asserted that the Palo Alto,

http://www.straight.com/article-341749/vancouver/canadians-uneasy-about-facebook-privacy
 
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