Google is implementing a new privacy policy as of March 1, 2012! Why are they doing it, what is its purpose and does it matter? And if you choose not to agree to the changes then you always have the option of closing your Google account. From Alma Whitten, Director of Privacy, Product and Engineering at Google, comes this statement describing how these privacy policy changes will be good for you, ...

The city state of Milan is prosecuting Google for defamation and breach of privacy after a video showing a down-syndrome boy being attacked by bullies was posted on the search engine's video site. Yesterday (16 December), four Google executives were in the stands protesting their innocence under EU laws on Internet freedom.

Ahead of a live spiked debate, Simon Davies of Privacy International says Google should stop treating privacy as a pain.

Britain's privacy watchdog is to look again at what personal information internet giant Google gathered from private wi-fi networks.

This was probably inevitable: An Indian Court has been called to ban Google Earth amid suggestions the online satellite imaging was used to help plan the terror attacks that killed more than 170 people in Mumbai last month. A petition entered at the Bombay High Court alleges that the Google Earth service, "aids terrorists in plotting attacks." Advocate Amit Karkhanis has urged the court ...

The European Commission has said that Google's Buzz is in line with the bloc's data protection guidelines, while 10 national regulators from Canada to the UK are demanding that Google must change the privacy controls of the social networking site.

Google’s blasé attitude towards people’s private lives reflects a broader cultural indifference to privacy.

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg will visit Google today to meet with senior executives to discuss internet privacy issues and the rise of cyber-bullying. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, as well as email and instant messaging are increasingly used by young people as new ways to bully and intimidate vulnerable children. Statistics show that the equivalent of one 12-15 ...

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will visit Google today to discuss issues around privacy and cyber-bullying.

Google announced yesterday (9 September) that it will further shorten the period it stores Internet users' private data in an attempt to address privacy-related concerns. Yet by halving its data retention period from 18 to nine months, the search engine still falls short of fulfilling the demands of EU privacy protection authorities.