Celebrating Data Privacy Day
28 Jan 2011
It’s become a welcome tradition: Today is the fourth annual Data Privacy Day. Dozens of countries have been…
Keep your opt-outs
24 Jan 2011
Today we’re making available Keep My Opt-Outs, which enables you to…
The Technology of Privacy: When Geeks Meet Wonks
18 Jan 2011
Come to Google’s Washington, DC offices for a panel discussion about how privacy affects technology and vice versa. This discussion won’t linger on policy…
The Department of Commerce explores privacy
16 Dec 2010
In April the Department of Commerce announced the formation of an
Learned lunches: the Oxford Internet Institute Lectures
08 Nov 2010
Established in 2001 as an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet, the Institute’s research faculty devotes its time to the…
Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google
22 Oct 2010
How many German households have opted-out of Street View?
20 Oct 2010
Since April 2009, people in Germany have been able to ask for their house to be blurred on Street View ahead of the product being launched. At first they could…
Easy tips to control your privacy
15 Oct 2010
Google Product Manager Jonathan McPhie was in DC recently to meet with privacy advocates, academics and members of the media to help spread the word about our…
Google TechTalk: Designing Privacy as a Product
10 Sep 2010
If you’d like to find out more, join us for a Google TechTalk given by Privacy Product Manager, Yariv Adan, entitled Designing Privacy as a Product". Yariv has…
Trimming our privacy policies
03 Sep 2010
So we’re simplifying and updating Google’s privacy policies. To be clear, we aren’t changing any of our privacy practices; we want to make our policies more…
Empowering users to control their privacy
27 Jul 2010
Updated video added below
How do you come up with solutions for online privacy when technology is constantly evolving? It’s a challenge that…
Street View driving update
08 Jul 2010
An update on China
28 Jun 2010
(original post)
Ever since we launched Google.cn, our search engine for mainland…
Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference kicks off
15 Jun 2010
Editor’s note: From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest, and are…
Google Analytics: More choice for users
25 May 2010
We created Google Analytics to help website owners aggregate and analyze their traffic so they can improve and…
WiFi data collection: an update
14 May 2010
(cross-posted from the
WiFi data collection: An update
14 May 2010
When we announced three weeks ago that we had mistakenly included code in our software that collected samples of payload data from…
Happy half-birthday Dashboard! Six months in and 100,000 users a day
05 May 2010
Since we’re celebrating our very first half-birthday, we thought it was the ideal time to update you on…
Data collected by Google cars
27 Apr 2010
What information are your cars collecting?
We collect the following…
Greater transparency around government requests
20 Apr 2010
So it's no surprise that Google, like other technology and telecommunications companies, regularly receives demands from government agencies to remove content…
Google Files Privacy Comments
19 Apr 2010
Opt-ins, opt-outs, and everything in between
16 Apr 2010
Earlier this week, Google’s Senior Policy Counsel Nicklas Lundblad and Policy Manager Betsy Masiello published a paper called
Privacy protections are good for our users and business
14 Apr 2010
TechTalk: liberating data in the internet cloud
09 Apr 2010
So let’s imagine you’ve been using a particular service for a while, and - for whatever reason - you decide to switch to a different provider. A lot of your…
Our stand for digital due process
30 Mar 2010
A lot has changed since 1986. Gas is now measured in dollars and Taylor Swift (born 1989) won album of…
Security alerts for Gmail
24 Mar 2010
We’re always developing new ways to make your online experience more secure. For example, earlier this year we worked through several technical obstacles to…
Control your Buzz settings in Google Dashboard
18 Feb 2010
Earlier this week, I noted some of the improvements we've…
An engineer's perspective on privacy
01 Feb 2010
Our first ever Brussels Tech Talk last week was about this and other questions on online privacy, given that it was Data Protection Day. Dr Alma Whitten,…
Celebrating Data Privacy Day
27 Jan 2010