European regulators may take action against Google regarding the company’s March 2012 privacy policy changes. Google consolidated their policy, combining 60 separate documents into one agreement that spans across all of their products, including YouTube, Gmail, Google+, and their Android smartphone. Google says the consolidation is meant to improve the user experience as well as [...]
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Good to know but not good enough
Google wants to educate you about privacy with a website and campaign called “Good to Know.” They’ve spent tens of million to get the word out about Good to Know, which has great information on things like how to shop online safely, choose a smart password, and actually understand what an IP address is. We [...]
Parents, Lies, & Facebook
Some people seem surprised that millions of parents are lying to Facebook and violating its Terms of Use to create profiles for their under-13 children. We think it’s natural. We think children and parents should be able to lie more online. We should be able to sign up for websites with fake names, have emails [...]
Is Google+ being “privacy evil”?
If we thought Google+ vs Facebook was about competing to enhance control over your online privacy, maybe we need to think again. Over the last 96 hours or so, there have been a lot of reports of Google enforcing its policy (oh-so-cleverly named “community standards”) that users of G+ need to use their real name. [...]