privacy policy

The sound of chickens coming home to roost

The sound of chickens coming home to roost

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... »

Google misses European data privacy deadline

Google misses European data privacy deadline

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... »