Privacy Policies | Page 2

What business owners need to know about gathering, using and protecting customer information.

In a committee report, the tech giant is putting its foot down about where people can be 'forgotten' online.

The ride service said it will provide training for employees, making policies easier for customers to understand, and tightening access controls.

As the FTC cracks down on non-compliant businesses, understanding the importance of children's online privacy and protection is even more important for small businesses.

While a San Francisco ruling protects Google search results under the U.S. Constitution, European regulators aren't quite so hands off.

Americans overwhelmingly say that they don't feel in-control of how their personal data is collected online, and Facebook's new privacy policy will likely do little to change the sentiment.

The big social network also has the unfortunate distinction of being the company viewed as most likely to have a corporate scandal.

Two financial regulatory groups have announced that their jointly produced software program, Soltra Edge, will become available on Dec. 2.

Forget the features list and ease of use. There are some serious implications to consider with the companies privacy policies.

The social network will give its researchers 'clearer guidelines' for future experimentations -- but just what these guidelines are is anyone's guess.

As Apple continues to investigate its own high-profile hack, CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers assuring their private data is safe.

With ecommerce platforms making it easier than ever to launch a website, competition is fierce. To ensure your website stands up to the trust test, make sure it has these seven components

In response to questions raised by EU data protection agencies, Google published a point-by-point response explaining how it is currently processing the 91,000 removal requests it has already received.

That feeling of being unfettered on the Internet is an illusion but some basic legal documents will make it virtually real.

Several news outlets claim some of their articles have been hidden by the search engine.

Emotions are running high over an experiment where Facebook manipulated news feeds to see how users' emotional states would be affected.

'The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which [America's] founders fought.'

Rather than assuming that new users wish to share their feeds with the entire Internet, Facebook will now implement default sharing among 'Friends.'

Google will have to delete 'inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant' links on request, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled today.

Following a failed appeal, Google was ordered by French courts post a notice on its Google.fr homepage informing users that it would be paying a 150,000-euro fine over privacy violations.

Today, the President announced a plan to overhaul the way the National Security Agency handles cell phone metadata, among other security policy changes.