European Watchdogs Challenge Google Over Its Privacy Policy 35
Trajan Przybylski writes "Information rights authorities in the UK, Germany, and Italy threatened to take legal action against Google if the company does not change its unified privacy policy. In its latest statement the ICO, Britain's information watchdog said Google's privacy policy implemented in March 2012 may not comply with the UK Data Protection Act. Many privacy activists and commentators have been critical of the data unification practice with some claiming the data sharing across web services carries serious risk of compromising people's identities as many users are not even aware their data is freely passed between Google-owned services."
Not surprising ... (Score:2, Informative)
I bought a new Android tablet the other week. In clicking around I opened the YouTube application -- next thing I knew the damned thing had created an account for me on YouTube without asking me.
I don't want a YouTube account, and I didn't tell you to create one for me. Give me the damned option to run the app without a damned account.
Google has one interest, and that's harvesting as much info about you as possible. I fear my tablet will end up having a lot of the stuff disabled to keep Google at bay with their crap.
I used to like Google, but increasingly they're becoming an entity I don't put any more trust in than I absolutely must -- and unfortunately, everyone seems to be going in the same direction.