Irresistible force/immovable object?
The BBC News website has just run a piece on Google and its policy on privacy.
Apparently the Article 19 group, a data protection group that advises the European Union, has written to Google expressing concern “that it may be breaking European privacy laws by keeping people’s search information on its servers for up to two years.”
Google’s global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said that Google “was committed to dialogue with the group.” Google will answer the EU’s concerns before the panel’s next meeting at the end of June.
The article goes on to explain the group’s worries and details the current European trends in the field of privacy and data retention - and with Google collecting a massive amount of information about searchers and their online habits it will be interesting to see where all this ends up. Essentially Google’s “mission” is diametrically opposed to most people’s concept of privacy.
Irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Read the BBC News article here
