Tagged: Cookies
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Data Commissioner tells 80 Irish websites to explain approach to EU cookies law News
19.12.2012 Some 80 websites in Ireland – including major Government departments, like the Department of Health and the Department of Finance – have been written to by the Data Protection...Categories: Servers, Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Web -
How companies are tracking you on the web (infographic) News
07.11.2012 Ever feel like you’re being watched online? Well, you are, according to a new infographic that looks at how companies track internet users online and what they do with that... -
Google fined US$22.5m by FTC for misrepresentation of users’ privacy controls News
10.08.2012 The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has handed down its largest ever civil penalty and Google has been ordered to pay US$22.5m to settle charges that it misrepresented privacy... -
Weekend news roundup: death of Windows Live, is social killing innovation? News
28.05.2012 Looking back over some of the international newspaper stories about tech, including Microsoft's decision to kill the Windows Live brand, how UK cookie law might be out of step... -
Microsoft and Google face off in IE privacy dispute News
21.02.2012 Microsoft has claimed that Google bypasses Internet Explorer’s (IE) privacy protection features to track users. Google hit back, claiming IE uses outdated technology which... -
Google issues statement on Safari and user privacy News
20.02.2012 Google has issued a statement to clarify its position in light of the Safari cookies debacle that started last week. -
Google to be investigated in US over Safari cookies News
20.02.2012 Should you be afraid of Google and how it tracks user behaviour on Safari? Following last week’s report of privacy violations of Safari users by Google, three lawmakers from the... -
Google to educate consumers about cyber crime News
18.01.2012 To combat the growing problem of cyber crime, Google has decided to take matters into its own hands. Yesterday in the US, it started Good to Know, a consumer education campaign...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Global CIO, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
New Household Charge website sparks privacy debate News
05.01.2012 A blogger has caused a major kerfuffle by pointing to privacy issues on the new Household Charge website. Environment Minister Phil Hogan has had to row in and reassure citizens... -
Blogger alleges Facebook has re-activated tracker cookies News
04.10.2011 Nik Cubrilovic, the Australian blogger who sensationally revealed last week that Facebook cookies were tracking users even when they weren’t using the social network, has just... -
Facebook fixes cookies that watched logged out users News
28.09.2011 Facebook is understood to have fixed the glitch that meant it could track users after they logged out of the site. In recent days, an Australian blogger revealed his year-long...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Security, Internet, Digital Media, Computers, Communications -
Ireland ensures EU cookies rules won’t crumble digital economy News
08.07.2011 By shifting cookie consent from web pages into browsers instead, Irish legislators have taken a clever pro-business approach to transposing a difficult EU directive that could...Categories: Software & Web Development, Legal, Internet, Government, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
New Govt will need to decide on EU ‘cookies’ directive News
09.03.2011 A new EU-wide law is set to make cookies crumble. But the lack of national guidelines on how website owners or marketers will be able to track users online with their consent...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Internet, Government, Economy, eCommerce, Data Management -
Google enables permanent opt-outs from ad-tracking cookies News
25.01.2011 Google has made permanent opt-outs from ad-tracking cookies available via an extension for download in its Chrome browser. The move is an early response to increasing regulatory...Categories: Web 2.0, Operating Systems, Open Source, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business -
IAB damns ‘re-spawning’ of cookies as an act of evil News
06.10.2010 A shady practice known as ‘re-spawning’ has attracted the ire of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe, which condemned the practice because it circumvents a user’s... -
EU telecoms reform eliminates uncertainty over internet cookies News
25.11.2009 The new provisions in the European Union Telecoms Reform Package are being welcomed by publishers and the digital advertising industry because they provide a solid legal basis... -
The way Google’s cookie crumbles News
18.07.2007 Originally when a user visited a Google owned site, information on user habits or preferences were collected in cookies or tiny data files that were to be stored until 2038.Categories: CIO