After giving Google a four-month deadline to change its privacy settings, six European data watchdogs, which are settled in heavyweights Germany and the UK as well as France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain, are seeking to conduct more investigations into Google's privacy settings. In October 2012, Google was charged with not meeting the standards of the European Commission.
According to the Commission:
"Google should do more to let users see what information was held about them, provide tools to manage this data and take more care to ensure it did not store too much data about users."
Privacy will always be relevant as long as social media remains a communication tool. With debates about Facebook's privacy settings, Google is now becoming a target. If we consider Google Earth's ability to show someone's house in broad daylights to its other daunting ability to mark local pedophiles, we know that there are concerns in America regarding its policies as well.
Why hasn't this been addressed in America? And also, why is there rarely news about such Google cases in America? Can Taylor Swift's catalog of beaus be more important than talking about privacy issues in the world's most popular search engine that began in the States?
Even from past articles I have discussed and shared, they have usually been from a non-American source. Is it shame? The ignorance-is-bliss mentality? The few desensitizing the masses on real issues going on in this country? Hopefully the U.S. will take notice to such discussions that are just as relevant here --after all, I know where my house is on Google.
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