EPIC Urges FTC To Investigate Google Services

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @04:20AM 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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Re:Again, Nah. by PeanutButterBreath · 2009-03-18 07:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Its incredibly weak to assert a "true intention" when all you have is a "likely" alternative.
I think the problem is that you don't understand the meaning of "for". Of course, if you actually think that "argument" is a big word. . .