Microsoft and Google should adopt privacy guidelines similar to those unveiled by Yahoo this week, an influential lawmaker said. Full Article at Information Week
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I have been pressing online companies for greater voluntary efforts to refrain from the massive, systematic gathering of information about individual consumer Web use and the long-term retention of such data in a form that can identify the Web habits, interests, searches, and purchases of individual Ame...
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I urge other leading online companies to match or beat the commitments announced by Yahoo
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Yahoo voluntarily sets a new standard for privacy protection, a standard against which Microsoft, Google, and others will now be compared
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Privacy is a cornerstone of freedom and I applaud Yahoo's announcement [Tuesday] for recognizing that consumers deserve ample privacy protections in the digital era to ensure trust and freedom on the Internet
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I don't think Yahoo's announcement takes the privacy discussion off the table
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As much as the U.S. search firms talk about how they are improving their practices, I think they are really afraid that the Europeans are going to bring an enforcement action under European privacy laws
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With Google and Yahoo! the time clock begins again every time a user returns
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We're proud this new policy sets a new benchmark for the industry.
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We have focused on IP addresses, because we recognize that users cannot control IP addresses in logs ... On the other hand, users can control their cookies. When a user clears cookies, s/he will effectively break any link between the cleared cookie and our raw IP logs once those logs hit the 9-month ano...
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We want to take the issue of data retention off the table
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