Google saw someone’s cat - and so it begins. Earlier this week, the search engine giant released Street View, a Google Maps feature that allows users to see things from the perspective of a person driving down a public road. Now privacy concerns are b
How It Works TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' quer
Der Suchmaschinenbetreiber Google weitet sein Service der personalisierten Suchergebnisse ab sofort auf alle Nutzer aus, also auch auf nicht registrierte User. Die Personalisierung erfolgt automatisch und muss, sofern unerwünscht, von jedem User manuell deaktiviert werden. Datenschützer meldeten bereits Bedenken an.
"Perhaps it's time for the 'sphere to pressure Google to open up and let us at least have some level of understanding of what data they're compiling on us and how they're using it -- and let us selectively or completely opt out."
Was tut Google eigentlich mit unseren Daten? Dieser Frage ist der IT-Sicherheitsexperte Sven Türpe nachgegangen. Aus öffentlichen Informationen und mit einer Portion Informatikerbauchgefühl
NYT By JONATHAN ZITTRAINMAY 14, 2014 The Opinion Pages A right to be forgotten? "THE European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Europeans have a limited “right to be forgotten” by search engines like Google. According to the ruling, an individual can compel Google to remove certain reputation-harming search results that are generated by Googling the individual’s name. The court is trying to address an important problem — namely, the Internet’s ability to preserve indefinitely all its information about you, no matter how unfortunate or misleading — but it has devised a poor solution."