Google and Privacy
By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com
Any company that proclaims that "do no evil" in its corporate motto is just asking to be knocked off its self-appointed pedestal. As I've said before in this space, the "do no evil" motto is nothing more than a marketing slogan, and Google is no more or less prone to doing evil than any other Web company. But of course, Google's holier-than-thou motto has evoked just the results that one would expect, and Privacy International has taken a swing at the company in its recent report, "A Race to the Bottom-Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies." The research group ranked Google at the very bottom of its ranking of companies' privacy practices.
Read the full article here.
Any company that proclaims that "do no evil" in its corporate motto is just asking to be knocked off its self-appointed pedestal. As I've said before in this space, the "do no evil" motto is nothing more than a marketing slogan, and Google is no more or less prone to doing evil than any other Web company. But of course, Google's holier-than-thou motto has evoked just the results that one would expect, and Privacy International has taken a swing at the company in its recent report, "A Race to the Bottom-Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies." The research group ranked Google at the very bottom of its ranking of companies' privacy practices.
Read the full article here.
posted by ITworld Editors at 10:27 AM
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