Google Analytics faces German ban
The world’s most popular website analytical tool, Google Analytics, could soon be illegal in Germany, raising fears that Brussels mandarins…
Facebook acts after hack attack
Facebook is tightening up security on its site by offering users an encryption service following a number of high-profile hacks,…
Google pre-empts behavioural laws
Google is pre-empting a clampdown on behavioural advertising by launching a browser extension for Google Chrome that enables users to…
iPhone app winner feared ‘prank’
The Apple customer who downloaded the 10 billionth iPhone app – and in the process scooped a $10,000 gift card…
EC probes Google unpaid search
Brussels mandarins have launched a major probe into Google over claims it has abused its dominant market position by penalising…
YouPorn site is ‘history sniffing’
The YouTube of smut – YouPorn.com – stands accused of secretly spying on users’ browser activity, known as “history sniffing”,…
MPs blamed for Street View let-off
The data regulator has hit back at Parliamentary claims that it was ‘lilly-livered’ in its handling of the Google Street…