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Google Calls for International Privacy Standards

HairyNevus writes "The Washington Post has an article detailing Google's request for international privacy standards. Google is taking this matter all the way to the U.N., arguing that a hodge-podge of privacy law unnecessarily burdens Internet-based companies while also failing to protect consumers. Although Google is currently under investigation by the EU for its privacy practices, the company claims it has been a crusader for protecting consumer privacy. Google's privacy counsel Peter Fleischer called America's privacy laws 'too complex and too much of a patchwork,' and the European Union's laws 'too bureaucratic and inflexible.' The alternative? Something closer to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's framework which 'balances very carefully information privacy with business needs and commercial interests', according to Fleischer."

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  1. moron calling for 'standards' for anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how about standards for treating yOUR fellow human beings as you would yourself? if that were in the works, there'd be much less need for so much 'privacy'/so many 'secrets', & almost everything else would fall into place/improve by default. we know, way too simple. instead, many of US prefer to FUDge up almost everything, with little/no regard for anyone. 'out of sight'..., yikes almighty.

    meanwhile, back at the debacle we lovingly call man'kind', yOUR fearful 'leaders' continue to develop more&more cruel & unusual ways to create additional debt & disruption for most of US, while our fellow humans across the water continue to explode by yOUR $hand$.

    infactdead corepirate nazis still WAY off track
    (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01, @09:35AM (#20433195)
    it's only a matter of time/space/circumstance.

    previous post:
    mynuts won 'off t(r)opic'???
    (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 30, @10:22AM (#20411119)
    eye gas you could call this 'weather'?

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8004881114646406827

    be careful, the whack(off)job in the next compartment may be a high RANKing corepirate official.

    previous post:
    whoreabull corepirate nazi felons planning trips
    (Score: mynuts won, robbIE's 'secret' censorship score)
    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01, @12:13PM (#20072457)
    in orbit perhaps? we wouldn't want to be within 500 miles of the naykid furor at this power point.

    better days ahead?

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