Comments on: Google proposes global privacy standard

Search giant wants standard based on actual harm to consumer, but a privacy advocate says the proposed guidelines are weak.

[The_Decider]

WTF?

This is like MS proposing ethics standards.

This whole thing is a joke, Google is anti-privacy, and their dangerous notion of having to show harm done is the exact opposite of privacy.

What a joke. This is the fox in the henhouse.

[Anon-Y-mous]

Next up: M$FT Proposes Global Non-Monopoly Standard

But of course GOOG can do no wrong.

[Newspeak finder]

Never in Europe

Luckily the EU will protect its citizens from this latest attempt to
allow Google run amok with other people's privacy.

[wmorriss]

Showing Damages...Does that Mean Waiting for an ID Theft

I was particularly unimpressed about the emphasis on focusing on whether a person is actually harmed by a breach. This focus in the US has resulted in courts essentially determining that people can't recover anything unless they can show that a breach led to an identify theft (something I blogged about here: http://ephemerallaw.blogspot.com/2007/08/7th-circuit-says-no-private-right-of.html). If Google was really serious about privacy, they would be looking at how courts have failed to protect privacy, and fixing the problems, not looking at how courts have failed to protect privacy and imitating them.

[Kevin Walker]

covering ones bum?

Isn't funny how google propose this after the recent copyright scandal over addwords, peoples email and who actually holds the copyright to your/our words contained in an email...

It is no different to a goverment who pretend to care about us by enforcing health warnings on cigarettes, but without the taxation income from cigarettes goverments would find it very difficult to meet economic demands...

So, do google really care or are they just looking after themselves?

k

[trustedtoolkit]

Skeptical

Google has the largest information repository in the world. The information they manage ranges from the mundane to the most sensitive. I can't even imagine how much personal and private data flows across their systems. It should be obvious that Google has the most to gain and the most to lose.

I do like how they are gathering information from many walks though.

Does anyone remember that Google was recently given the lowest privacy grade possible by Privacy International? Either Google is trying to change their ways, or they are up to something. You can decide.

My Blog: http://www.breachblog.com

[Kimsh]

Grandstanding

Google seems to have lots track of actually doing something useful and run totally off the rails in their attempt to grandstand for publicity. Good work being done on some of the power work, but this is a bit pathetic, as if the polemics around the analog TV frequencies.

[neeradd]

GOOGLE CHEATS INDIA??

I Have Checked in Google it is true. If you have the net connection please check it immediately..

JUST PUT ANY OF FOLLOWING URLS IN YOUR BROWSER AND CHECK HOW GOOGLE IS CHEATING INDIANS:

INDIAN VERSION(http://maps.google.co.in)

US VERSION (http://maps.google.com)

CHINESE VERSION (http://ditu.google.com/)

Guys
?

This is Serious!
After the Chinese demands for Arun achal Pradesh, Google now has started FOOLING Indians as well!
Google shows different maps for US, Indians and Chinese.

In the Indian Version, it shows Arunachal Pradesh as Integral Part of India ?

In the US Version, it shows Arunachal Pradesh as a Disputed region?
In the Chinese Version, it is not even part of India?

Where as in the Chinese version, it shows Arun achal Pradesh as an INTEGRAL PART of CHINA !
?

Our bloody polititions have no will. Let us take it up..
Please send this mail to EACH INDIAN YOU KNOW AND LETS SPREAD THE WORD.
I am attaching screen shots of the maps that i saw,
?

INDIAN VERSION(http://maps.google.co.in)

US VERSION (http://maps.google.com)

CHINESE VERSION (http://ditu.google.com/)

"Ask not What Your Country can do for you; ask what You can do for Your Country." - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

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