This winter, a white-hat hacker contacted several travel companies alleging that their websites have a security vulnerability that would allow thieves to skim credit card data from customers.
Security alert: How a travel technology company is grappling with an ethical hacker
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Google attempts to appease travel search critics, plans tests for new display options
April 25, 2013 By 5 Comments
Google’s lengthy wrangling with European regulators could see some kind of closure if a market test of proposals from the search giant proves successful.
Do clarified US rules mean travel bloggers must disclose freebies in relevant tweets?
March 18, 2013 By 51 Comments
Most US travel bloggers have assumed that they can tweet about press trips without mentioning that they are press trips as long as they link to a blog post that discloses it was a press trip. Yet that’s not the law.
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Google reaches a truce with US regulators on antitrust probe, dealing FairSearch a blow
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Federal regulators closed a 20-month probe of Google’s search business without finding any antitrust violations.
Google may drop screen scraping of TripAdvisor and Yelp content to get government off its back
December 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
US regulators may end their antitrust investigation of Google’s search business by letting the company make voluntary changes, such as limiting use of restaurant and travel reviews from other websites, say two news reports.
Hotel chain lawsuit MUST BE a security wake-up call for the travel industry
July 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Last week, authorities in the US filed a lawsuit against Wyndham Worldwide, claiming the company and three subsidiaries failed to protect sensitive customer credit card data.
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Google flight search bias? What about Bing?
January 3, 2012 By 42 Comments
Google has been taking a lot of heat for placing Google Flight Search results above all organic results, but although Bing has largely flown under the radar, it takes preferencing even a step further than Google does.
US senators say Schmidt admitted preferencing, urge FTC probe of Google
December 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
The two ranking members of the Senate committee which conducted hearings on Google’s search practices took Google chairman Eric Schmidt to task and urged the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate antitrust issues raised.
FairSearch takes its Google case to 50 attorneys general
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
FairSearch is keeping up the pressure on Google, turning over a white paper blasting Google’s search-engine and advertising practices to 50 US attorneys general.
FairSearch survey: Americans back FTC probe of Google
September 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google opponent FairSearch released a survey showing 79% of Americans favor the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust probe of the search giant.
