In a previous post I commented on research which seemed to suggest that consumers weren’t always acting honestly when they provided personal data to companies. Well, there’s news today of the other side of that general coin. When Google started it had a very neat proposition and a very clear position. A very clean, simple interface which presented the results of your search quickly and without obt... »
The issue of privacy, or more generally and accurately the issue of who owns what data, and the rights and obligations associated with the use of that data have clearly shot up the public agenda. A term that a few years ago would have been associated with what you could and couldn’t do or say in your own home is now the topic of daily discussion in the context of Google, Facebook, the NSA and GCHQ... »
Three months ago Google was ordered by the French, and other European governments, to make changes to its revised Privacy Policy, which it introduced in March 2012. This allows Google to combine users’ information across multiple Google services. Many users and consumer and privacy groups protested, and a number of European governments ruled that the new policies and practices were illegal with re... »
In previous posts we’ve noted that when new technologies are introduced it often takes people time to work out the social rules that need to be used to tame and domesticate the raw technology. The mobile phone is a good example of that: just because it is possible to make and receive calls anywhere, at any time, doesn’t mean that we want or have to allow people to do that. So in the few years sinc... »
