Watchdog Group Flunks Google on Privacy Practices

[Rich Tate]

It looks like a sparring match is developing between Google and consumer watch group Privacy International. It seems that the group isn’t very happy with how Google conducts its business.

Privacy International isn't scheduled to officially release its report ranking privacy performance of the top sites until 7 p.m. EDT Saturday. But the Associated Press and other media outlets, who apparently got sneak previews, are reporting that Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade, a category reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."

 

[Jack Hammer]

I get the feeling someone's out to get Google. With the Justice Department defending Microsoft and refusing to enforce the anti-trust ruling against them...