Media News - Thursday, May 27, 2010
EU says search engines flout data rules
Search engines came under the spotlight of European data protection authorities on Wednesday, accused of failing to do enough to protect the anonymity of their users. In the latest confrontation between European regulators against large technology companies over privacy issues, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! were charged with flouting the European Union’s data rules. Privacy chiefs from the EU’s 27 countries are worried that an individual’s search history – the list of all the queries made through search engines – could be compiled to form a comprehensive picture of a user’s lifestyle. They have repeatedly asked for the data to be deleted after six months, or at least for part of the information to be erased so that it cannot be traced back to the individual who made the search queries. European regulators have grown increasingly restless over what they perceive to be potential breaches of privacy from technology companies. (Financial Times)
Subscribe
Join our Media News mailinglist with over 12.000 subscribers.
Search archive
The Media News archive contains over 15.000 items so it is advised to narrow your search.
Time Machine
| May 2012 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Syndicate
Popular articles
- WikiLeaks announces partnership with Brazilian investigative journalism center
- Acclaimed photo was faked
- Euronews launches Arabic feed
- Iran: Leading women’s magazine forced to close
- US: Nonprofit website plans watchdog journalism for Orange County
- New website reaches out to EU Neighbourhood Journalists
- Internet censorship plagues journalists at Olympics
- MySpace opens doors to developers MySpace webpage
- Sweden: Tax on press advertising to be abolished
- Startup lets public test conversational Web search