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A subpoena for information regarding Amazon.com customers and used book purchases as part of a criminal investigation into Robert D’Angelo has been withdrawn after withering criticism from the presiding judge.

Federal Judge Stephen Crocker in western Wisconsin rebuked US Attorneys for seeking records from Amazon in connection with D’Angelo’s tax evasion and mail fraud case. News [...]

Four days of the search industry’s biggest gathering starts in San Jose, where attendees can learn the finer points about marketing effectively and ranking well with the drivers of search-related traffic.

We would be remiss if we didn’t mention the WebProNews contingent making the rounds of the convention. Our video staff has their cameras and mikes [...]

Ask.com will take its research with privacy advocates at the Center for Democracy & Technology into a new product for their search engine.The AskEraser product offers a straightforward way of keeping one’s search history from being retained by Ask. AskEraser will arrive in the wake of a number of privacy-related events related to search, such [...]

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and US Public Interest Research Group (US PRIG), are about as happy about the Google DoubleClick deal as Microsoft was, but for different reasons. Microsoft’s beef (as everybody sat back, pointed, and tried to decide between pot and kettle) was about antitrust concerns. [...]

On the heels of Congressional hearings and extensive media coverage of a Justice Department report documenting abuse of privacy measures, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking an emergency order that would require the FBI to surrender and make public all records regarding the misuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect private information from American [...]

By anonymizing logs of information captured from people who search on Google after 18 to 24 months, the company hopes to improve the perception people have of their privacy being protected.Google keeps data now for as long as finds the information useful. That could be an infinite period due to the relative low cost of [...]