Ride the Lightning
Cybersecurity and Future of Law Practice Blog
by Sharon D. Nelson Esq., President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.
Congress Asks FTC to Investigate Google's New Privacy Policy
January 31, 2012
If you haven't read it yet, here's the link to Google's new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, which become effective on March 1st. As you probably heard on the news, there is no way to opt-out of the changes.
And if you haven't figured this out yet, what Google disingenuously calls "improving the user's experience" means that Google will be collecting more data about you, sharing it with others and (big time) monetizing the data it collects.
A lot of folks are unhappy about this, some of them with the power to do something about it.
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairmen of the Congressional Bi-partisan Privacy Caucus, sent a letter on Friday to the FTC asking the agency to probe whether the lack of an opt-out provision in Google’s new privacy policy violates the company’s consent agreement reached last year over the Buzz social network.
The power of the behemoths to invade our privacy continues to grow – I hope the FTC will take a serious look at Google's new policies.
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