Google Admits that It Reads your Emails

Google has updated its privacy terms and conditions on Monday to offer more transparency regarding its email-scanning practices. One of the world’s biggest Web internet giant, Google, made it clear that the information its users submit and share with its systems is all analyzed. Last year, Google...

Privacy Groups Seek to Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp

The appeal of WhatsApp, the cross-platform mobile messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for a stunning $19 billion price tag, was that it kept to its promise of not collecting user information that would be converted to ad revenue. The acquisition by Facebook, however, likely changes that...

Calling Foul on the Political Football That is Do Not Track

It looks like it’s time for a do-over for DNT. The oft-maligned specification has become—like many other standards efforts before it—a political football. Parties with interests on both sides of the issue have their own agendas, cannot agree on semantics and ignore, in this case, what should be t...

EU Officials, Privacy Agencies Attempt to Clarify Cookie Rules

Officials in Europe this week are hoping to set clearer rules for online advertisers with new guidelines that are supported by the continent’s leading digital privacy agencies. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, agencies from the European Union’s EU member countries met last week...

Facebook Open to Comments on Proposed Privacy Policy Changes

Facebook today announced proposed changes to its privacy policy that may better explain how it uses cookies and how long it retains your data, which is: “as long as necessary.” In addition, it wants the option to use your data for advertising on third-party Web sites. In a message called “Enhanci...