Book Companion:

Jeanette Woodward

Privacy and Internet Service Providers

Google plugs hole in Presentations after e-mail addresses leak out Elinor Mills , WebWare, September 19, 2007
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9781377-2.html
Nathan Weinberg at Inside Google sure can write a dramatic blog entry. For instance, in this one on Google closing a security flaw in its new Presentations feature of Google Docs, he starts out with a screen capture of e-mail addresses that were leaked through that flaw. Of course, the addresses are obscured. It's a graphically appealing but very scary image. . .

When the net is watching you: David Reid asks why search engines are so keen to keep hold of our personal data.
David Reid, BBC News, August 31,2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm
Search engines have given many people a very good way to satisfy their curiosity about any and every subject. But, as many people are realising while they discover the world, search engines are finding out all about them. This was vividly illustrated in August 2006 when AOL accidentally published the details of millions of keyword searches that 650,000 of its subscribers had carried out over a three month period. . .

Google Calls for International Standards on Internet Privacy
By Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, September 15, 2007; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091302248.html
Google, a frequent target of privacy advocates, yesterday called for new international standards on the collection and use of consumer data. Peter Fleischer, global privacy counsel for Google, told a U.N. audience in Strasbourg, France, that fragmentary international privacy laws burden companies and don't protect consumers. He argued for an international body such as the United Nations to create standards that individual countries could then adopt and adapt to fit their needs. . .

Google bows to privacy pressure from Europe:
Web giant cuts time it stores personal data harvested from users in bid to appease European watchdog
Rhys Blakely, Times Online, June 12, 2007
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article1920653.ece
Google is cutting the length of time it stores personal data that can identify its users as it tries to appease the European Union watchdog that has questioned its privacy policies. . .