Well, here is the first post for PrivacyView Software's Blog. This is just the beginning, so stay tuned for many more to come.
Google Proposes International Web Privacy Standards
Article taken from Broadbandinfo.com
An interesting article worth taking a quick peek at. To summarize the article in a few words:
On Friday Google will submit a proposal to governments and tech companies to create an international privacy policy. This policy will not be governed by rules and regulations, but more or less self-regulated by companies.
Now, is this a step forward for Google in ensuring privacy is protected all over the world, or merely a ploy to save face after buying DoubleClick? Also, Google was rated last by Privacy International and was considered a threat to privacy.
Google should perhaps put some ideas on paper, so to speak, if they want to look legitimate. This article talks about Google submitting the proposal for other companies to generate a transnational privacy policy. It sounds great in theory, but just proposing the idea and not having any course of action is a little........well, it's stupid.
The Privacy International ratings are still being questioned so assuming that Privacy International's ratings are complete crap (which they could be), then Google still has to contend with the fact that DoubleClick is now part of the Google umbrella.
Good job with the idea and proposal Google, but we may need to see something bigger from you. The leading search engine (and damn near everything else) in the world should definitely be the leader of this pack.
