Game retailers better than movie theaters at enforcing age restrictions

Game retailers abide by the ESRB ratings when selling to minors nearly twice as often as theaters do when selling R-rated movie tickets.

Path settles with FTC for $800K … and steps into another privacy storm with images

Just as Path was beginning to put last year's controversy over its access to user address books, the social networking app is in hot water again over location data within images.

Twitter continues to be the anti-Facebook with Do Not Track support

While privacy seems like a concept lost on Facebook, Twitter is showing that it understands its users’ need for security by supporting Mozilla Firefox’s “Do Not Track” feature, a day before Facebook is set to raise billions in its IPO.…

Facebook confirms new corporate structure, privacy may be to blame

Facebook‘s corporate structure is getting a facelift with five new product groups that will report directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg.

“We can confirm that in order to streamline the product development process, we have reorganized our technical teams into product …

Under pressure, Facebook updates its privacy principles

The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook’s relationship status won’t read “it’s complicated” anymore, since the two companies settled a longstanding privacy suit today.

The social network has often come under fire for its privacy policies, a spark which fully ignited …

Google responds to FTC inquiry: Antitrust? What antitrust?

Yesterday we wrote that the Federal Trade Commission was readying a large-scale Google antitrust probe, and today Google confirmed that it has received notification of an investigation from the regulatory agency. Google Fellow and key search engineer Amit Singhal responded …