Day archives: April 6th, 2013

Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies

Via Firefox Aurora Notes – Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies: “On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox patch into its “Nightly” channel that changes how cookies from third party companies function. Users of this build of Firefox must directly interact with a site or company for a cookie to be installed on their machine. The …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Privacy

EU Data Protection Policies Challenge Google Privacy Policy

PCWorld: “Six European data protection authorities will conduct formal investigations of Google’s privacy policy after the company repeatedly rejected their requests that it reverse changes it made to the policy last March. Data protection authorities in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the U.K. have resolved to conduct investigations or inspections of Google’s privacy …

Subjects: E-Commerce, EU Data Protection, Privacy, Search Engines