or more specifically the privacy and security of your data.
Privacy International have rated Google as ‘hostile’ in their survey of web-based companies deal with data from their users.
PI stated that Google’s collation of huge amounts of data, its appalling record of responding to related complaints and that their privacy policies left a lot of unanswered questions.
Google have stated the report was mistaken and that it worked hard to blah blah blah. Sorry I lost focus there. They deny it, so Privacy International must be wrong about Google’s “numerous deficiencies and hostilities” to privacy. hmmmm.
Privacy International will be publishing a more detailed report in September, after further talks with the companies involved.
Jun 11 2007
March 1st, 2008 12:24 am
[…] Following on from the damning report that Privacy International released, and similar concerns from Article 29 (an EU based advisory body), Google has now cut the length of time that they will save data pertaining to their user’s searches. Instead of the original two years, personally identifiable information will be erased after 18 months, although the unidentifiable sections of the data will be kept for analysis. OK, I don’t know about you, but I’ll be sleeping more soundly in my bed tonight… Check the original post here. […]