Google Gets Failing Grade for Privacy
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On Saturday, a London-based privacy advocacy group, Privacy International, released the preliminary results of a six-month survey of Internet privacy practices. The organization evaluated 23 Internet companies on several criteria, and assigned each company a color-coded privacy assessment, ranging from green (&quot;privacy-friendly and privacy enhancing&quot;) to black (&quot;comprehensive consumer surveillance & entrenched hostility to privacy&quot;).
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Privacy International wants Google to acknowledge and apologize for 'hostility' to customer privacy.
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NEW YORK Oct. 18, 2004 - People who use public or workplace computers for e-mail, instant messaging and Web searching have a new privacy risk to worry about: Google&#39;s free new tool that indexes a PC&#39;s contents for quickly locating data.
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Google Answers bites the dust. What else didn't make the cut?
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Google's privacy and content policies for Google Applications give Google full rights to use your content however the company wants.  Are you nervous?
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Google says its cookies will auto-delete after two years in an effort to "improve privacy".
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Google defends itself during a European Parliament hearing to consider the Internet's effect on privacy.
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Privacy questioned Google has faced down one European probe into what it does with people's personal information, only to be challenged with another.â¦
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For the first time in two years, the guarantor of internet privacy abruptly terminates a company's right to display the TRUSTe seal -- without saying why. Privacy advocates say consumers deserve details.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO -- 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.
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Google, a frequent target of privacy advocates, yesterday called for new international standards on the collection and use of consumer data.
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Google has a problem -- a good one.
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Online search companies Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft are tightening their privacy policies in the face of mounting public, congressional and regulatory agency concern about the vast amounts of personal data they gather and store.
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The company's slogan may be "Don't be Evil", but Internet giant Google has been hit twice in as many weeks with allegations it doesn't respect users' privacy.
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Google is being taken to task by a UK-based privacy group over its apparent lack of a commitment to the privacy of its users. However, the company is doing what it can do discredit the report.
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Elements of Google's privacy policy are "vague", the firm's global privacy counsel tells BBC News.
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The decision by Google to limit the retention of identifiable search data to a flat 18 months (as opposed to the 18-24 month range announced earlier) earned the company some rare praise from the European Union, which has been critical of Google&#39;s privacy policies.