Tag: privacy

Op-Ed: The business news media has been abuzz with talk of new data privacy rules that goes into effect on May 25.

“An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that their private information should be just that—private—and not for sale without their knowledge."

When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's "number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products." And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick's massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names and other personally identifiable information Google has collected from Gmail and its other login accounts. But this summer, Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand–literally crossing out the lines in its privacy policy that promised to keep the two pots of data separate by default.

“He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future."

"It's none of their business!"