IT Compliance Advisor
January 2012
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Online privacy policies take over antipiracy as top Internet headline
- Executive Editor 30 Jan 2012 -
Did protests of SOPA and other antipiracy legislation work?
- Executive Editor 20 Jan 2012 -
EPIC letter questions Google’s online consumer privacy
- Executive Editor 13 Jan 2012
After weeks of nonstop talk (including a lot of criticism) of SOPA and other antipiracy legislation, protecting online privacy is back in the news. The switch in focus came as the European Union ...
It was an eventful week for Internet-related antipiracy legislation, to say the least. After threatening for weeks, Internet giants such as Wikipedia and Google participated in a day-long ...
Just last April, Google Inc. settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that it used "deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises" to consumers when it launched Google Buzz in 2010. ...
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Big online business 'open' to Stop Online Piracy Act alternative
- Executive Editor 06 Jan 2012
Internet giants -- including eBay, Google, Facebook and Twitter -- reportedly are considering a simultaneous "blackout" of their sites in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. Now they are ...