Happy Data Privacy Day — or Data Protection Day, depending on where you are. This year, there seems to be many more events to celebrate DPD, and more blogs and news sites at least mentioning the day. That’s a Good Thing, but of course, there’s still much to be done in terms of creating a…
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Canada’s Privacy Commissioner launches new Facebook probe
In response to a new public complaint, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is once again launching an investigation into Facebook, the social networking site whose privacy policies and practices were the subject of a comprehensive probe by her Office last summer. The complaint focuses on a tool introduced by Facebook in mid-December 2009, which required…
Google Toolbar Tracks Browsing Even After Users Choose “Disable”
And if you needed any additional reasons to avoid Google and switch to Startpage or the new Startpage web surfing proxy that debuts tomorrow, Benjamin Edelman blogs: In this article, I provide evidence calling into question the ability of users to disable Google Toolbar transmissions. I begin by reviewing the contents of Google’s “Enhanced Features”…
Privacy pioneer search engine launches anonymous surfing service
A search engine company that has won plaudits for its efforts to protect users’ privacy is launching a proxy-surfing service on Thursday by which users can look at web pages without the knowledge of the page owner. Proxy services allow web users to see pages via a third party’s web server, meaning that the operator…