Google admits it didn’t delete all Wi-Fi data collected by Street View cars
Google: “We continue to have payload data from the UK and other countries.”
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Senator Al Franken: Google and Facebook so dominant that “privacy is a casualty”
Franken was blunt about the privacy threat facing internet users every day, saying that users are “out on a limb when it comes to legal protections” for personal information, and that the protections citizens have against government intrusion against privacy don’t apply to corporations.
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations. The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Silicon Valley. And you can’t impeach Google if it breaks its “Don’t be evil” campaign pledge.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google and several prominent online advertising networks have been using a workaround to bypass the privacy restrictions on Apple’s Safari and Mobile Safari web browsers, allowing the companies to deposit cookies on a user’s computer even if the device is set to prevent such behavior. At issue is the way Safari treats cookies. (via Google and others caught circumventing Safari and Mobile Safari privacy restrictions | The Verge)
Add the European Union to the list of those taking issue with Google’s new privacy policy: Reuters is reporting that the EU wants Google to delay the implementation of its new privacy policy so it can investigate whether users’ data is sufficiently protected under the new rules. (via European regulators calling on Google to halt changes to its privacy policy | The Verge)
Google CEO: people won’t ‘collapse in terror’ when someone uses Glass in a bathroom
Google CEO Larry Page has again moved to reassure consumers over the privacy implications of Google Glass. Speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Page told investors that privacy fears will fade as people begin to integrate wearable technology into their lives, noting “it is not that big a concern."
Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?
The Google Drive cloud storage service launched yesterday to much fanfare, but as with any new Google product, there are important questions about how the company will actually use personal data uploaded to the system. Google sells ads against your data, after all, and the more data you give the company, the more opportunity it has to screw up. That means the Google Drive terms of service and privacy policy are critically important, and there’s been a lot of selective interpretation floating around the web in the past 24 hours — and a lot of comparisons to the privacy policies of competitive services like Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive.
That’s great — all web services should be subject to harsh scrutiny of their privacy policies — but a close and careful reading reveals that Google’s terms are pretty much the same as anyone else’s, and slightly better in some cases. Let’s take a look.
If we don’t make you cry, we fail,” Ms. Twohill said. “It’s about emotion, which is bizarre for a tech company.
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Google Glass’ awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be. On Saturday’s new episode of Saturday Night Live, the writers of Weekend Update also got into the fray, with fictional tech blogger Randall Meeks and his new Google Glass joining the news desk to speak to Seth Meyers.
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