Google's breakneck changes stoke privacy fears
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Most people missed the announcement about how Google Inc. wants to burrow inside your brain and capture your most intimate thoughts. That's because it never happened.
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NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be a tool to help people find stuff on their hard drives. But experts are warning that Google&#39;s new search engine for computers may leave a person&#39;s personal information at risk if they use shared computers.
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.
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Google shortens cookie expiration to two years, but regular users won't see privacy benefits.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Street-scene photographs added to Google Maps and Earth last week capture passers-by in delicate situations and have privacy advocates accusing the world&#39;s most popular Internet search firm of breaking its own &quot;Don&#39;t be Evil&quot; code.
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New Web ads respond to your activities--and this has privacy advocates worried.
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Facebook.com, the No. 2 U.S.   social network site that is quickly expanding beyond its   college student base, has been met with a sudden privacy   backlash by users after it made design changes this week.
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Opinion: Whether they realize it or not, many people leave sensitive information out in plain view on Web sites. But sooner or later, a Google search will dig it up.
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Google's privacy and content policies for Google Applications give Google full rights to use your content however the company wants.  Are you nervous?
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European data protection officials have written to Google warning that the search giant may be in breach of E.U. privacy because of the way it retains data on individual searches.
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Google's search appliances could expose Web sites that use the products to information-stealing phishing attacks.
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Google is quickly responding to security threats, as befits a search site that is rapidly becoming indispensable for IT users of all kinds.
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Plus: Google apps for your site, and HP's pretexting debacle.
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Google Inc. is shortening the life span of its "cookie" data-tracking file &#151; but it's not clear whether the move would do much to enhance privacy.
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The site tweaks a privacy setting that had revealed personal information from private profiles after a Wired News inquiry, and explains its philosophy on users' privacy. Threat Level talks with chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly.
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A European consumer group has complained that Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick Inc. could hurt privacy rights due to the massive amount of data the companies would hold.