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Google To Watchdog: Mind Your Own Business

Peter Fleischer, Google’s top global privacy counsel, said data retention issues are of no concern to a European privacy watchdog group.Data protection and data retention occupy different parts of the overall online security picture. When the Article 29 Working Party in Europe expressed its concerns about data retention, Google shifted its retention policy to an [...]

Google Privacy Practices Under Attack

Privacy International, a London-based privacy watchdog group, has issued a report citing Google’s privacy practices as the worst among large online destinations.
None of the sites reviewed scored a “privacy friendly” ranking. Several were labeled “privacy aware” but needing improvements or generally aware but with “notable lapses.” Sites like AOL, Facebook, Yahoo, and Microsoft Windows Live [...]