Web giants' consumer privacy strategy faces hard sell

10 Mar, 2012, 3:24 pm IST General

Emboldened by their victory in quashing online piracy legislation, U.S. Internet companies are gearing up for a battle over whether consumers should be able to restrict efforts to gather personal data. More

After tracking Safari, Google is now accused of violating IE privacy

21 Feb, 2012, 10:36 am IST Naina Khedekar Software

While Google is dealing with the accusation of violating privacy by tracking Safari, Microsoft comes forward ... More

U.S group sues to halt changes to Google's privacy policy

09 Feb, 2012, 12:57 pm IST Web services

A U.S. public interest group asked a federal court on Wednesday to block Google Inc from consolidating more than 60 of its privacy policies, saying ... More

Microsoft slams Google's new privacy policy

02 Feb, 2012, 5:42 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services 2 Comments

Google released a statement last week saying they were going to make one blanket privacy policy across ... More

Google defends change to privacy policies

01 Feb, 2012, 8:53 am IST Web services

Planned changes to Google Inc's privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers ... More

FBI developing app to monitor Facebook, Twitter and more

28 Jan, 2012, 2:29 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services

The FBI is working on an app that will create an early warning system from material scraped from social networks. According to the BBC, the More

Lawmakers press Google on privacy policy changes

27 Jan, 2012, 12:16 pm IST Web services

A leading lawmaker on privacy issues said on Thursday he would ask for a probe into whether recently announced changes in how Google handles ... More

Google creates the mother of all privacy policies

25 Jan, 2012, 2:43 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services

Google announced in a blog post that for the sake of convenience, they are consolidating a lot of their privacy policies. More

U.S Court finds police use of GPS on suspect unconstitutional

25 Jan, 2012, 10:40 am IST Padmini Harchandrai GPS Devices

In a recent lawsuit involving police use of a GPS tracking device on a suspect's car for 28 days in the United ... More

Which new Facebook feature scares you more: Timeline or Apps?

30 Sep, 2011, 1:17 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking 1 Comments

Facebook is slowly rolling out all the new features it described at f8 to users around the world, including the Timeline and the way apps now function. More

Spelling mistakes can lead to online security breaches

13 Sep, 2011, 11:59 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking

If you have a friend with a very complicated email address or even just a name you frequently misspell like mine, you have to be extra careful when typing out their addresses when you send them an email. More

Now, block pesky contacts on Google+

27 Aug, 2011, 4:54 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Social Networking

The pesky GIF animations on Google+ are bound to be one of the reasons you might hate Google+ so much. Now, Google has added an ignore and block feature on More

Fake names banned on Google+

16 Aug, 2011, 11:23 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking

Google has stated that users will have to use their real world names on Google+, or else they will not be allowed to use the social network. More

Facebook isn't Giving out Your Phone Numbers

12 Aug, 2011, 1:26 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Social Networking

According to a recent viral Facebook message, Facebook is collecting and giving out yours and your contacts' phone numbers. This is based on the fact that if you click on 'Contacts' (Account-Contacts) it shows you people that aren't your Facebook friends, but are contacts in your phone. More

London Rioters Communicate Over BBM

09 Aug, 2011, 1:31 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai BlackBerry 2 Comments

As the London riots went into its third night, spreading to other parts of Britain, one thing became apparent: rioters used Research in Motion's BlackBerry Messenger to communicate. More

Indian Government Wants to Monitor Social Networks

09 Aug, 2011, 11:00 am IST Padmini Harchandrai BlackBerry 3 Comments

The Union Home Ministry has written to the Department of Telecom (DoT), asking it "to ensure effective monitoring of Facebook and Twitter". More

Google+ versus Facebook: So What's New?

29 Jul, 2011, 5:07 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai BlackBerry 8 Comments

Google+ opened up with a lot of mixed reviews. Some enthusiasts loved it and made the switchover from Facebook, but their dropping stats indicate that the average social networker isn't about to make the switchover to Google+ just yet. More

Google+ Traffic Slumps

28 Jul, 2011, 11:51 am IST Nigel Almeida BlackBerry 5 Comments

It has been almost a month since Google+ launched, and in such a short amount of time they already managed to sign up more than ten million users. More

Google+ Pulls in 20 million Visitors in 3 Weeks

25 Jul, 2011, 11:59 am IST Nigel Almeida BlackBerry

Just three weeks after the launch of Google+, Web Traffic watcher comScore estimated over 20 million visitors signing up to the network. More

Street View: Google and Karnataka Govt. Discuss Future

19 Jul, 2011, 6:27 pm IST Anuradha Shetty BlackBerry

It can be recalled that a while back, we had reported that one of Google’s immensely popular services, Street View faced a complete ban in the city of Bangalore, India. More