Critics question whether Google's privacy changes will simplify settings or give users less control.

Google said it is revising its privacy policies and changing how it uses data from users of its services to provide more personalized search results and advertisements.

After this Google blog post announcing the company's new privacy policy went up today, Facebook management was probably breathing a nice big sigh of relief.  No longer can they be accused of driving the biggest privacy steamroller, because with today's announcement an even bigger steamroller is revving up to flatten user privacy. And what's worse, [...]

Google Inc plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could ...

Announced on the Official Google Blog earlier today, Google will be simplifying how the privacy policy is structured across more than 60 different Google products on March 1, 2012. Users will definitely benefit from the simplicity of a single document regarding privacy instead of sixty policies, but may not like the company direction stated within the blog post. As outlined in the revised ...

Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, the leading organization that defends Americans’ rights to control who can use sensitive personal health information in electronic systems

O2, one of the largest mobile operators in Europe, says that it is currently investigating accusations that it is sharing its customers’ mobile numbers with websites visited while surfing on the carrier’s ...

Google said Tuesday that it would revise its privacy policies and terms of service, to make them shorter and more readable and to change the way Google can use information that users provide.

Google will introduce new, shorter and more readable privacy policies and terms of service on March 1. The biggest change in the new policies goes to the heart of privacy concerns about Google's new social search feature.

OTTAWA - Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has produced a video, a tip sheet for parents and a kit for teachers to help kids deal with online privacy threats.