Google Rated Worst for Privacy!

"In a report released today, 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."

None of the 22 other surveyed companies — a group that included Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL — sunk to that level, according to Privacy International.

While a number of other Internet companies have troubling policies, none comes as close to Google to "achieving status as an endemic threat to privacy," Privacy International said in an explanation of its findings."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4876274.html

 

What criteria did they base that on? It was a trend a few years back to "google" people and see what info you might get on them. (Even our local newspaper had an article about it.) That's simply because Google was (and remains) the top search engine. That doesn't mean the same information can't be found on the other search engines.

 

i dont see how google is any more a threat to privacy than any other entity on the internet which documents and stores personal info

 

This report is just plain BS :

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It's not a secret Google is trying to trace everything you're doing in Internet.
More targeted ads for everyone! Cheers

 

I've to admit to agree with this

 

I suppose it becomes a problem when someone buys google - the CIA for instance!

 

Now, that might be a problem.

 

If you go to google and look up "Johnny I Hack Stuff" you will see the Google Hacking database.. full of stuff people dont want you to see

 

The report is total crap and that organization is reckless for releasing such a report with no proof...

 

While the report may not be 100% accurate, Googles power and datamining is still a big concert.