Posts Tagged ‘online privacy’
What The Web Knows About You
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:38 No CommentsListen to this article
What does the Web know about you? Plenty.
Reporter Rob Mitchell found out vastly more about himself (his research subject) online than he could have even a year or two ago. The big difference is that state and local governments are putting online digitized records, often with Social Security numbers and other personal [...]
Google’s Growth Makes Privacy Advocates Wary
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 14:07 No CommentsListen to this article
Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc. (GOOG)’s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or not, that Google’s broadening reach is giving it unchecked power.
This scrutiny goes deeper than the skeptical eye that lawmakers and the Justice Department have given to Google’s proposed ad partnership with [...]