Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."
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Matt Cutts, the "gadget guy" who works at Google, has posted a very interesting rebuttal:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/privacy-international-loses-all-credi...