Google gets privacy 'to-do' list from watchdog

Searching_ _ _ · Aug 17, 2011

Google has been handed a list of suggestions for improving privacy on its services by the UK's Information Commissioner.

Among its findings, the ICO recommended expanding a programme of educational videos for users.

Google had promised reforms last year after it emerged that Street View cars had collected sensitive wi-fi data.

While the latest audit was broadly positive, it warned that a similar breach could happen again.

The search firm was praised for improving staff training and introducing a Privacy Design Document (PDD) which lays out privacy guidelines and safeguards for engineers working on new products.

However, the report also said that PDD needed to be more widely rolled-out across the company.
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Google gets privacy 'to-do' list from watchdog - BBC News

caspian · Aug 21, 2011

Here is what Google's CEO had to say about privacy last year. Somehow I don't get the feeling that they will be doing anything other than trying to give the appearance of creating a better environment for user privacy. They clearly have another agenda altogether.

Here is what Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, had to say at the Techonomy conference on August 4, 2010:

We can predict where you are going to go Tuesday morning.

Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are. You think you don’t have 14 photos of yourself on the internet? You’ve got Facebook photos!

The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity. In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a name service for people. Governments will demand it.
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http://dailyanarchist.com/2010/11/01/google-your-privacy-and-safer-alternatives/

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