A team ex-AdMob and Google scientists are launching Drawbridge, which allows advertisers to target consumers across desktop and mobile. The company is coming out of stealth mode with $6.5 million in… Read more »
The legal fallout continues over Google’s decision to circumvent privacy settings on the iPhone. Court records show that there are now at le… Read more »
There has been a lot of outrage — bordering on hysteria — about Google’s new privacy policy, with some critics advising users to delete their search histories. But is there that… Read more »
How bad for Google was this morning’s lead story in the Wall Street Journal on its circumvention of privacy settings in Safari? Given the intense scrutiny Google is under both in… Read more »
Just because it’s a witchhunt, doesn’t mean there aren’t any witches. The Wall Street Journal continues it privacy crusade – or is it tirade? – by exposing that Google works around… Read more »
A number of lawsuits have claimed that tracking cookies installed on users’ computers are a breach of privacy, especially new forms of “zombie cookies” that can recreate themselves even if they… Read more »
The possibility of Europe-wide restrictions on the tracking cookies used by online advertisers had some up in arms. But the threat has been dispelled — at least in Britain, where the… Read more »
Since upgrading to Leopard (and thus upgrading to the newest version of Safari), I’ve had the unfortunate problem of Safari throwing all my cookies right out the window. Every 4-6 weeks… Read more »