Google's breakneck changes stoke privacy fears
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Most people missed the announcement about how Google Inc. wants to burrow inside your brain and capture your most intimate thoughts. That's because it never happened.
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Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group. The group is seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  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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New national standards for driver's licenses worry some privacy advocates.
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Google plugs security holes in popular desktop search software that could open up data on a PC to intruders.
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Google's switch to Universal Search has more than a few marketers awash with panic over loss of rankings.
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Google Inc. is shortening the life span of its "cookie" data-tracking file &#151; but it's not clear whether the move would do much to enhance privacy.
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A shift in the search giant's algorithm causes fear and trembling--but so far, little else.
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Although Google Inc. says privacy issues are behind its plan to shorten the life span of cookies placed on a user's computer, the move is being dismissed largely as hype.
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NEW YORK -- It was supposed to be a tool to help people find stuff on their hard drives. But experts are warning that Google&#39;s new search engine for computers may leave a person&#39;s personal information at risk if they use shared computers.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO -- Drawing upon its clout as the Internet's most powerful company, Google Inc. is calling on businesses and regulators throughout the world to adopt international standards for protecting consumer privacy online and offline.
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Online search companies Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft are tightening their privacy policies in the face of mounting public, congressional and regulatory agency concern about the vast amounts of personal data they gather and store.
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Google's expansion of the street view option for its mapping service into another eight US cities has renewed privacy concerns over what it photographs.
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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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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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Not long ago, Google was the cuddly search engine that could. Now it's a bona fide data monster, and your personal information is its meat.