Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! should give ground on privacy concerns.
28 May 2010
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“Googsoft!” – my shorthand for Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! - are clearly trying the patience of Europe’s Data Protection Commissioners. Earlier in the week, the Commissioners reported these companies to USA’s Federal Trade Commission and to the European Commission claiming that Googsoft!’s privacy practices are unacceptable. Clearly these letters are intended to have later regulatory effect (see references for URL). Yet the problem for Data Protection Commissioners is that the public have, without regard for their own privacy, lapped up
