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."
Thread beginning with comment 247020
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2006-01-01
http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-65428
PI is a respected organization. It has a reasonably good skill set. It is rather liberal though.
]{
RE[2]: not enough info
by dylansmrjones on Tue 12th Jun 2007 07:06
in reply to "RE: not enough info"
Member since:2005-10-02
Liberal in the american sense is quite correct - even extremely so. It is an anti-capitalistic political organisation using privacy as a cover for it's crusade against the free market.
Take a look at their website - look at the graphics. Reminds me of (the now former) DKP/ML.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2005-07-06
Would've been nice to have a few more things -
something more about the group Privacy International besides it being "London Based".
the criteria used to rate the companies.