Facebook’s fumbled effort at revving up an advertising engine is the subject of Randall Rothenberg’s op ed in the Wall St Journal today. While many people thought Facebook’s Beacon was yet another worrying sign that internet companies were threatening consumer privacy with their pursuit of revenue from targeted advertising, Rothenberg argues that Facebook’s about-face demonstrates […]

“We take privacy concerns seriously. All these images are taken on public streets. It’s exactly what you could see walking down the street.” –Stephen Chau, product manager for Google Maps, on Google Street View
Yesterday, Google launched its Street View feature for Google Maps which allows users to view photos of city streets. The […]

The competition for privacy is beginning with Ask.Com promoting its AskEraser which lets users delete some of the information that Ask has collected on them. Consumers have only just started to focus on the fact that they’ve been divulging vasts amount of details of themselves to faceless Internet giants who maintain the stuff for years […]