Google Desktop privacy branded &#39;unacceptable&#39;
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Google&#39;s Desktop represents a privacy disaster just waiting to happen, a rival has warned. David Burns, Copernic CEO, says users should know that the giant ad broker intends to mix public and private queries
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Internet search giant Google&#39;s aficionados may just have lost some vital information that could hurt their wallet! Hackers exploiting a flaw in Google&#39;s desktop search tool launched a week back could have
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People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new security risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly locating data.
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As part of the ongoing concern over privacy and retention of private information gather from its users, Google is setting a new policy to reduce the lifetime of cookies to a period of 2 years auto-expire term. What this means is that users who visited Google&#8217;s site and continues to visit Google will have their [...]
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The apparent release of searches made by hundreds of thousands of users is raising privacy concerns.
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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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NEW YORK - People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google's free new tool that indexes a PC's contents for quickly locating data.    If it's installed on computers at libraries and Internet cafes, users could unwittingly allow people who follow them on the PCs, for example, to see sensitive information in e-mails they've exchanged...
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Have they no shame? The team at Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) is the latest to cast a wary eye on Google&#39;s (Nasdaq: GOOG) popular new desktop search tool and yell, &quot;me too
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A Rice University computer scientist and two of his students have discovered a potentially serious security flaw in the desktop search tool for personal computers that was recently distributed by Google.
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By Kevin J. O'Brien and Thomas Crampton  In the latest example of a U.S. technology giant potentially being called on the carpet in Europe, Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing data on its users for up to two years.
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Google is being investigated by the European Union over possible violation of the bloc's privacy rules. At issue is the search engine's practice of retaining user information for up to two years.
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Privacy questioned Google has faced down one European probe into what it does with people's personal information, only to be challenged with another.â¦
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Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop search results via the Web.
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Google's calls for a global privacy standard are not enough to allay concerns about its purchase of DoubleClick.
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Google is being taken to task by a UK-based privacy group over its apparent lack of a commitment to the privacy of its users. However, the company is doing what it can do discredit the report.
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InfoWorld - Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Google&#39;s desktop software that could be used to wreak havoc on a victim&#39;s computer.
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A new online feature of Google Maps called Street View is stirring up a debate over privacy concerns on the Web.