Privacy groups ramp up Google-DoubleClick attacks
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As the Federal Trade Commission wraps up deliberations on whether to approve the $3.1 billion deal, consumer advocates argue privacy issues must be front and center.
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Privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg contends that Google's purchase of DoubleClick will give it broad amounts of data about individual Internet users, with few legal limits on what it could do with that data.
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Nearly lost in the news about the&#160;U.S. Federal Trade Commission&#39;s (FTC) approval on Thursday of Google&#39;s acquisition of DoubleClick&#160;was another action by the agency: The publication of a proposed set of privacy principles governing online behavioral advertising.
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GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could trick people into revealing personal data.
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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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Richard Stiennon, Webroot vice president of threat research, said the increasing number of desktop search tools -- now coming out from Google, Yahoo, MSN and others -- may also be leveraged by attackers.
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Google's pending $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad-serving vendor DoubleClick will hurt consumers, according to two privacy groups opposed to the wholesale approval of the deal.
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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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Europe's major consumer group, BEUC, said yesterday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.'s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers' choice of Web content.
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Attackers can trick browsers into releasing password information.
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The real privacy issues are being raised by Google, Yahoo, AOL and others, which are tracking users in order to show them advertising targeted to their interests.
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Now that the pairing of online advertising industry giants DoubleClick and Google is receiving extra regulatory attention, both in the US and abroad, the question arises once again: Does a merger of two giants lead to the creation of a single behemoth that can carve out a lion's share of the Web audience for itself? One of DoubleClick's long-time competitors - Burst Media CEO Jarvis Coffin - believes it won't.
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You know the name, but Google's probably not your first thought when pondering hosted security options. But a spate of recent buys indicates the company has serious designs on the space.
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The U.S. government still needs to block or impose conditions on Google Inc.&#39;s acquisition of online advertising server DoubleClick Inc., despite Google&#39;s call for global privacy standards, three privacy groups said Monday.
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Dozens of the political action committee's subscriber pages exposed by simple Google search.
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Ziff Davis - Google's phishing vulnerabilities could foretell new security threats for major Internet companies cozying up to the desktop.
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.