Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 00:39 UTC
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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People don't agree on morality, and (sub)cultures neither. Law makers face an increasingly complex task of defining broadly accepted rules for a country. In a perfect world, laws wouldn't be needed, but as it is, they function to protect people, while (ideally) trying to preserve everybody's freedom as much as possible. Ethic standards are the only conceivable guideline for laws. One such moral is preventing harm to other individuals -- or would you say that is an objective standard? I might agree.