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FTC To Monitor Google's Privacy Practices For 20 Years

Posted by Soulskill on from the settling-in-for-a-long-stakeout dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "As reported in TPM, the Federal Trade Commission has reached an agreement (PDF) with Google that will include the agency monitoring the company's privacy practices for the next 20 years. Whither, Facebook?" Oddly enough, another article details a surge in government requests for user information from Google. In a blog post, the company explained that they wanted to provide more transparency with regard to government requests, and have updated their Government Requests tool to do so.

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  1. Re:So which is less evil? by TechLA · · Score: -1, Troll

    Taking pictures of everything, analytics (on most of the internet), business practices that mostly were about targeting people with ads and monetarizing their services with that.

    Google got really good at it too. Their own advertisement were always kind of soft, but still visible and used everywhere on their sites like YouTube. Their image of "do no evil" catched a lots of geeks and so on.

    Well, eventually they got caught. And I wrote about their practices on Slashdot for a really, really long time. And was modded troll. Go figure :P