5 posts and columns on Article 29 Working Party

French Data Regulators to Google: How About Making Your Answers to Our Questions Universally Accessible and Useful?

in News on May 24 at 4:02 am PT

Just answer the damn questions, would ya?
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Facebook Privacy Options Chart Would Make a Great Halloween Corn Maze

in Social on May 13, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

As cavalier as it sounds, Facebook’s advice to users concerned about its privacy policies and practices–“If you’re not comfortable sharing, don’t”–might seem unassailable. But as counsel, its pretty weak coming from a company with a privacy policy longer than the United States Constitution and a set of privacy tools that couldn’t be more Byzantine if they were designed by the International Labyrinth Society.

No More Bing Brother, Says Microsoft

in News on January 19, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

Google has long claimed that the server log data it collects are a critical driver of innovation. Over the years, to appease privacy advocates, the company has tweaked its treatment of those data and the length of time it stores them. Google continues to collect IP addresses, though it makes them anonymous after nine months. This may soon change. And not because of any initiative on Google’s part but because of one by Microsoft.

Safari for Windows: Like a Glass of Ice Water in Hell

in News on June 12, 2007 at 12:09 pm PT

European Data Protection Officials: Yahoo and Microsoft Have Search Engines?

in News on June 12, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Let’s be honest here: “Don’t Be Evil,” Google’s Hippocratic oath for corporations, was a masterful public-relations gesture when it was first made, but it never changed the increasing risks associated with the company’s business operations. Google is a public company, not a public interest. There’s really no reason to trust it to do the right [...]