{"id":2577,"date":"2010-04-21T10:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T10:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:06:37","slug":"hypocritical-and-violent-information-tsars-attack-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Hypocritical and violent ‘information tsars’ attack Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google ‘not interested’ in privacy, say information tsars<\/b><\/p>\n

Google has repeatedly shown a \u201cdisappointing disregard\u201d for safeguarding private information about its users, the privacy officials from 10 major countries have said.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Information Commissioner Chris Graham and equivalent officials from Canada, France, Germany and Italy were among the signatories to a letter to the search giant\u2019s chief executive, Eric Schmidt<\/a>, which condemned the way the company has delivered both its Streetview mapping service and its Buzz product, which was conceived as a rival to social network Facebook.<\/p>\n

The letter, organised by Canada\u2019s Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, calls on Google to lay out how it will meet concerns about its use of public data in the future, and says that it has \u201cviolated the fundamental principle that individuals should be able to control the use of their personal information\u201d. The search giant has already acted to address a number of the points now raised in the letter, but said that it had no further statements to make on its privacy policies.<\/p>\n

The launch of the Buzz network in February sparked an international wave of protests because it took information about email users\u2019 most common correspondents and automatically built each individual a network of followers. This meant that links which people wished to keep private could immediately become public.<\/p>\n

Google Streetview, which provides an eye-level picture of almost every street in dozens of cities around the world, continues to cause \u201cconcern about the adequacy of the information [Google] provides before the images are captured\u201d, the commissioners said. The product has also been launched some countries \u201cwithout due consideration of privacy and data protection laws and cultural norms\u201d, they added.<\/p>\n

In a statement Google said that it had quickly rectified the problems that caused Buzz users concern. \u201cWe have discussed all these issues publicly many times before and have nothing to add to today’s letter,\u201d the search company said. \u201cOf course we do not get everything 100% right. We try very hard to be upfront about the data we collect, and how we use it, as well as to build meaningful controls into our products.\u201c<\/p>\n

The commissioners, however, said that they \u201cremain extremely concerned about how a product with such significant privacy issues [as Buzz] was launched in the first place\u201d.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/7612988\/Google-not-interested-in-privacy.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The hypocrisy of the state is a bottomless well full of the excrement of a thousand years of violence, theft, lies and bastardy. They \u201cremain extremely concerned about how a product with such significant privacy issues [as Buzz] was launched in the first place\u201d. What an extraordinary statement, especially coming from the people who issue mandatory Passports, ID Cards, forced enrolment in ContactPoint<\/a> and all the other harmful things that these states have deployed, knowing full well in advance that they were harmful to the privacy<\/a> of the people who would be forced into being violated by them.<\/p>\n

Lets think about what Google DOES NOT DO, compared to what these states DO DO.<\/p>\n

Google does not:<\/p>\n