EPIC Sues FTC Over Google's Planned Privacy Changes

angry tapir writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, asking a court to force the agency to take action against Google over planned changes in the company's collection of personal data. EPIC, in briefs filed Wednesday, asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to require the FTC to enforce a 2011 privacy agreement between the agency and Google over the company's fumbled rollout of its Buzz social networking service."

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Re:The first Slashdot troll post investigation

[gearloos]

HAHa loser.. nuff said...

Re:Slashdot is dead

[hairyfeet]

Oh come on now! Surely even the blind would notice /. has become a bunch of perception bubbles and flag waving, yes? As far as I've been able to figure it here is the current score, its Linux yay, Microsoft boo, Apple yay unless its against FOSS then its a battle royale with cheese between the FOSSies and Appleites, Canonical was yay and now they are boo, Open office was yay until it got bought by oracle which it then inherited Oracle's boo, Android yay, Google yay always no matter what because they "do no evil" snicker, HTC yay, Nokia boo, if i left out any yays or boos please feel free to fill them in.

Anyone that wants to karma whore can simply post anything that fits a yay on an approved subject, even if it makes no sense like saying "Just use Linux" when TFA is about a book review of Oracle DB management, and to get modded down all you have to do is risk popping a perception bubble by pointing out something no matter how obvious, watch as i go for a triple pop: Apple is too expensive and is using patents to try to block competition, Win 8 is a seriously stupid design that depends on touchscreens that the majority of computers won't have by Oct and I'd say what Google is doing would qualify as evil. Oh and in case you ain't noticed AC we have some lovers of perception bubbles making hundreds of accounts so they can modbomb anybody that doesn't wave the appropriate flag.

As for TFA can we all agree that Google is the new MSFT on the "Danger Will Robinson!" scale? Old Ballmer's head would asplode if the moron had an original thought and has such a hard on for trying to be Apple i bet he can't look at an iPad without having naughty thoughts. Meanwhile Google is gonna end up with so damned much info on the population and individuals that every three letter agency is just gonna be drooling at the thought of checking out their files and with the amount of secrets they'll be able to gather because so many people treat the Internet as this magical place where if there is nobody around it must not be known that someone like Nixon wouldn't have to risk planting bugs anymore, they'd just find out all the dirt they want from Google. Between Google and FB you might as well have a camera on your butt 24/7 because even if you avoid it your friends will be happy to plaster info about you on their pages.

So while I wish EPIC luck I'm afraid its a little too little, its a little too late as good luck convincing the public that everything they do on a PC or post to FB can be traced even if they set their FB status to private. Seems like it'd be a good way to shut down anybody that gets uppity though, the next one that tries to organize some tea party or occupy thing could easily get a call and be told "Do you REALLY want all your friends to know you are into midgets, shemales and granny gangbangs? if not then quit doing what you are doing" and watch them STFU but quick.