Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 


From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990—well before the Internet was on most people's radar—and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.

YouGov

YouGov is a professional research and consulting organization, pioneering the use of technology to collect higher quality, in-depth data for companies, governments, and institutions so that they can better serve the people that sustain them.  At YouGov, we leverage our online sampling and research expertise to conduct polls and deliver insights for political, media, university, non-profit, and marketing organizations.  Now, as part of a global organization, we can deliver this same expertise on a global scale.  YouGov serves its global clients via offices in:

Google And Privacy: Is It Time To Give Up?

Google on March 1 plans to consolidate its 70 or so privacy policies across its products - from Gmail to YouTube to Blogger - down to one.


Trying to maintain privacy in contemporary America is just too time consuming, too complicated, too exhausting. He can't tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore. He doesn't know whom to trust.
new privacy rules.
The attorneys general from almost three dozen states wrote to Google CEO Larry Page to "express strong concerns"

How to Opt Out of Google's New Privacy Policy (Sort Of)

Google's Updated Privacy Policy Under Fire Again

There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content. When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy.


Consumer and privacy advocates fear that Google already collects too much personal information about too many individual Internet users.
Google To Ramp Up Online Tracking

Big Brother Watch