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, ...

As TechCrunch reports, following the $125 million dollar settlement with the American Authors Guild last October, the Google Book Settlement site is now live, enabling copyright holders to make claims for scanned books available online through Google Book Search. Authors, publishers, and other...

There are thousands of working people who are forced to live in pain. Some are forced to live with illnesses that if caught early could be quickly sorted. Instead they are forced to wait until problems get worse and they then stop working and go on the sick. I’m no doctor and haven’t had any medical education, I’m sure any early intervention would be a lot painless for the patien...

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

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.

In the run-up to this week’s live spiked debate, Jason Walsh of forth magazine asks if Google's behaviour really is abnormal.

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

A number of blogs Live Blogged developments during US Election night, some using the Cover it Live application. One of the advantages of Cover it Live is that you can embed it anywhere - so I thought I'd put them all in one post for posterity. I have also listed traditional Live Blogs that I know of at the top. If you are aware of any more, please drop a note in the comments and I will add th...

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.