Reporters committee for freedom of the press

The FCC report details several instances in which Engineer Doe informed others within Google of the payload data capture. However a number of Google employees quoted or otherwise cited in the FCC document deny knowledge of the practice to varying degrees. There’s a he said/she said quality to the discussion of “who knew what and when?” … [Read more...] about Unredacted FCC Report Shows Google’s “Wi-Spy” Consumer Data Capture Was Intentional

Remarkably, the letter doesn’t make any type of strange, outrageous demands of the search engines. Indeed, after having watched so much come out of Washington DC and government in general that seems ignorant of how search engines work, the report and lettter both reflect that some real homework has been done. Nor does it single out Google for what’s clearly an industry-wide problem. … [Read more...] about US Senate Committee Asks Google, Yahoo & Bing To Fight Bait-And-Switch Moving Scams

Postscript: Utah Senator Mike Lee sent a letter to Senator Kohl calling for hearings to explore whether Google has violated US antitrust rules. Kohl is a Democrat and Lee a Republican. Given that “both sides of the isle” are now in favor of a closer look at Google it appears there will be some sort of hearing or hearings plural. … [Read more...] about Google Set For US Senate Committee Anti-Trust Investigation

In a short blog post, Google Policy Manager Betsy Masiello says Google “look(s) forward” to answering questions from Congress. That’s in response to, and confirmation of, an earlier Reuters report that the House Energy and Commerce Committee wants to talk to Google about its privacy policy. From the Reuters article: … [Read more...] about House Committee Has Privacy Questions For Google; Google Says Bring It On

The Acceptable Ads Committee isn’t the only organization looking at addressing the rise of ad blocking and improving digital ad experiences and outcomes. In the time that eyeo has been working with industry members to devise and launch this committee over the past year, Google, Facebook, the IAB and major advertisers formed the Coalition for Better Ads last September. The initiative is aimed at forming standards and developing technology to improve online advertising. In Feburary, ad-blocking startup Shine rebranded as Rainbow with a focus on ad filtering against IAB and other ad standards at the mobile carrier network level. Like Acceptable Ads, users opt into the service. … [Read more...] about Adblock Plus names independent Acceptable Ads Committee