Google's privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations

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Google's privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations

06-11-2007, 10:05 AM,

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Google's privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations

Quote: 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."

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...

full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...00840.html

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