European Watchdogs Challenge Google Over Its Privacy Policy

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 9, 2013 @02:27AM from the only-the-government-gets-to-spy-so-much dept.

Trajan Przybylski writes "Information rights authorities in the UK, Germany, and Italy threatened to take legal action against Google if the company does not change its unified privacy policy. In its latest statement the ICO, Britain's information watchdog said Google's privacy policy implemented in March 2012 may not comply with the UK Data Protection Act. Many privacy activists and commentators have been critical of the data unification practice with some claiming the data sharing across web services carries serious risk of compromising people's identities as many users are not even aware their data is freely passed between Google-owned services."

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Google is merely a branch of the NSA by 0111+1110 · 2013-07-09 03:00 · Score: 0, Troll

So much for do no evil. From a user perspective Google servers are indistinguishable from NSA servers. Google webmail is really NSA webmail. Google's relatively recent privacy policy changes and mandatory account unification were likely dictated by the NSA.

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Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.