Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

REDMOND, Wash.–If one were to draw up a list of the most challenging jobs in the technology industry, chief privacy officer at Microsoft likely would be pretty near the top of it. For a company with the size and scope of Microsoft, the volume of potential privacy issues is nearly endless, and if...

Google Releases Permanent Opt-Out Extension For Chrome

Google has delivered a new tool that enables Chrome users to permanently opt out of ad-tracking cookies in the company’s browser. The new extension gives users the ability to make their choices about not being tracked by online advertisers permanent, at least in Google Chrome. The move by Google ...

Ad Groups Try to Make Opting Out of Tracking Ads Easier

In the latest attempt to allay consumers’ rising fears about the massive amounts of data that online advertisers collect about them, an amalgamation of industry groups is planning to launch a new self-regulation effort meant to let users decide not to be tracked by advertisers. The program will...

Online Privacy: Industry Self-Regulation

This Google TechTalk features Aleecia McDonald of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how we arrived at the current state of online privacy and how self-regulation works in practice...