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Privacy Group Gives Google Lowest Possible Grade

The Washington Post is reporting on a finding by London-based group Privacy International. In a new report, they find that Google has some of the worst privacy-protection practices anywhere on the web, giving them the lowest possible grade. "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. In a statement from one of its lawyers, Google said it aggressively protects its users' privacy and stands behind its track record. In its most conspicuous defense of user privacy, Google last year successfully fought a U.S. Justice Department subpoena demanding to review millions of search requests."

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  1. Goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. Don't use it if you don't like it! by PineGreen · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody is forced to use it!

    If you are one of those privacy idiots just go and use other services. It is a public company and if people will start to leave their services en masse they will change. Otherwise they will not. As simple as that. I couldn't care less about policemen reading my e-mail or whatever you virgin retards whine about. I will happily carry on using their service...

  3. Re:tell me.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    do you sit here at slashdot all day and night, with no life, no girlfriend, no job, jerking off, clicking that refresh button every second just to see if you can get a first post to show goatse?

    No, sometimes I'm fucking your mother.
  4. clusty by bcrowell · · Score: 0, Troll

    Clusty.com seems to have better privacy policies than google, and seems to give results of about the same quality. I use it as a matter of habit these days, except for some fancier searches, for which I need google.

  5. Re:tell me.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How can you fuck my mother if your living in your parents basement and have never had actual female contact in your life? Fucking my mother would require you to actually leave your house. It would also require actual physical movement from the torso down which you are not capable of. Furthermore I don't think you want to expose your gross obesity to the world. (Though I am sure many many homosexual men would love your company)

    Simply put, it would be much easier for you to keep sitting at your keyboard jacking off to a fellow males gaping hole, and refreshing slashdot for more self gratifiaction and first posts than to try to fuck my mother. I am sure there are lots of other people out there who can also relate to you.