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EPIC Sues FTC Over Google's Planned Privacy Changes

Posted by samzenpus on from the when-in-doubt-sue dept.

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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  1. EPIC by Narcocide · · Score: 3, Funny

    What on earth... why are all these trolls so angry?

    1. Re:EPIC by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

      So instead of having 20 separate privacy policies, now each service is governed by the same. How is that bad?

      Well, IANAL but a priori, it's rather obvious that if you have several privacy policies that aren't exactly the same, then when you replace them all with a single one, you must lose some rights that you had for some services, and possibly gain some other rights that you had for some other services. So you end up with a different mix from what you initially signed up for in a given service. If you were happy with the original policies, you may not like the new ones.

      Aw crap! That reads like a lawyer's explanation. When I die, I'll go straight to Hell, and the only computer languages allowed will be Javascript....