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EPIC Urges FTC To Investigate Google Services

Posted by Soulskill on from the might-as-well-set-up-shop-at-the-googleplex dept.

snydeq writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a 15-page complaint asking the FTC to force Google to stop offering online services that collect data until the presence of adequate privacy safeguards is verified. The EPIC also wants Google to disclose all data loss or breach incidents, citing several incidents where data held by Google was at risk, the most recent of which occurred earlier this month with its Google Docs. The EPIC complaint [PDF] also listed other security flaws in Gmail and Google Desktop, a desktop indexing program, and urged Google to donate $5 million to a public fund that will support research into technologies such as encryption, data anonymization and mobile location privacy." EPIC has raised privacy concerns about Google before, and about Windows XP as well.

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  1. It is way too dangerous to use Google's products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stick with Microsoft if you want security.

  2. It's never safe. by Hoyty1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just live with the assumption that everyone is reading my documents and information. That's why I write everything important on paper! Good old paper... Kindle will never replace you...

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  3. Re:Google collecting data?! by vancondo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really?! Does that mean I have to remove all my mail from GMail?!

    Yes, from here on out it is recommended that you channel all of your personal correspondence through facebook. They'll keep it safe for ever and ever, or at least until the robot uprising.

    Once the robot uprising starts it is recommended you limit your personal correspondence to smoke signals generate by burning piles of plastic bags.

    Just be careful, the robots can smell fear.

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  4. Gears by crumbz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Epic should stop f*cking around with Google and get back to work on Gears of War 3 already..... Really, what is Phoenix supposed to do next, now that the Locust Horde has been *temporarily* stopped.