A panel appointed by search engine Google will hold the first of a series of meetings on Tuesday to debate the balance between privacy and the free flow of information after a May court ruling reinforced Europeans’
Do email platforms have the right to scan user emails if it helps to combat crime?
Google is set to release its Q2 2014 earnings on Thursday, July 17. In Q1, the company posted that its revenues grew by over 19% year over year. The result failed to enthuse the market which was expecting far better growth in both the top line and the bottom line. The primary reason for this was a decline in cost per click, which has been in a long-term decline for the past two years. However, this decline was offset to some extent by the adoption of its enhanced campaigns program that combines marketing campaigns across mobile desktop and laptops, i.e. across screens of different sizes.
It all started with an email typo. Entering a client’s email address last week, a contractor accidentally swapped @gs.com for @gmail.com — so instead of sending to a Goldman Sachs employee, the message went to a random stranger.
Normally, that would just be an embarrassment, but this particular email included private client data, and Goldman Sachs is willing to move heaven and earth to get it back. According to a new report from Reuters, the battle has taken the Wall Street firm to the New York State Supreme Court, pleading with Google to delete the email to prevent a “needless and massive privacy violation,” in the company’s words.
“I don’t have one single photograph of her, even though we spent the better part of our youth together. She never let anyone take pictures of her. Now that she is gone. I wish more than ever I had some sort of records of our time together. A proof of our love. But I have none.
But it is not entirely true (…).”
The magnitude of online information Facebook has available about each of us for targeted marketing is stunning.
Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85 percent of its total revenue. Yet Facebook’s inventory of data and its revenue from advertising are small potatoes compared to some others. Google took in more than 10 times as much.
The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials.
As part of a potentially explosive lawsuit making its way through federal court, giant online-services provider Google has acknowledged scanning the contents of millions of email messages sent and received by student users of the company’s Apps for Education tool suite for schools.
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