Privacy Group Asks Ftc To Investigate Google

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Privacy Group Asks FTC to Investigate Google

Preston Gralla, Computerworld

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:40 PM PDT

The privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google for privacy breaches related to Google Docs and other Google services --- and to ban Google from offering any cloud services, including Gmail, Google Docs and others until the company can prove it is capable of safeguarding people's privacy.

The complaint comes as a result of an incident in which people's private documents stored on Google Docs were shared with other users without their permission on March 7.

EPIC, though, says that the security breach was far from isolated, and claims it's part of an ongoing pattern at Google. It says that Google's security is inadequate, and that Google misleads people into believing that data stored with Google is secure. It's asking that the FTC investigate whether Google's security is adequate, and until that is determined, asks that any cloud-relating Google service be shut down. That means Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and others.

article at PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...ate_google.html

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