Privacy groups say Ask's privacy feature is flawed
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Group seeks changes for more privacy during Web searches, like using an opt-in cookie instead of opt-out.
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What's behind the latest privacy cockup? Google can count itself fortunate that a serious privacy storm it caused took place in the run up to Christmas - when world+dog was otherwise occupied. By altering the behaviour of one of its web-services, Google ran foul of its own Privacy guarantee - and continues to violate it.â¦
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Microsoft, Ask.com pressure Google by offering anonymity options and scrubbing saved query data.
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Privacy advocates are criticizing Sears for making the purchase history of its customers publicly available on the Web.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE  SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Companies brace for privacy debate as potentially intrusive applications arrive faster than expected.
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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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If you use shared or public computers, you have a new privacy risk to consider: Google Desktop Search.
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Just a day before a federal town hall on online tracking and advertising, privacy groups call for a federally run "Do Not Track" list. Advertisers deride it as invasive and unnecessary.
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook.com, a fast-growing U S social network website has sparked a privacy backlash that has quickly become one of the broadest cyber-protests ever with more than 600,000 members signing an online petition by midday yesterday.
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Google has the most abysmal privacy policies and is leading a &quot;race to the bottom&quot; by the world&#39;s most renowned Internet firms, according to a British human rights advocacy group.
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Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity.
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Web search leader Google Inc.&#39;s   commitment to consumer privacy came under fire from  Privacy International, a British activist group that has  previously singled out Google for criticism.
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Working group generates little real agreement on how or even whether to implement proposed privacy reforms.
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A European consumer group has complained that Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online ad broker DoubleClick Inc. could hurt privacy rights due to the massive amount of data the companies would hold.
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Google and Facebook join DataPortability WorkGroup, improving social network portability but raising privacy concerns.