Can Google Be Trusted? Posts
Politico: “Can Google be trusted?”
Friday, August 10th, 2012
A recent Politico story is asking the familiar question, “Can Google be trusted?” David Saleh Rauf’s story notes Google’s recent pattern of broken promises and questionable track record has “regulators around the globe wondering: ‘Can Google be trusted?’” According to David Vladeck, the FTC’s director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, “Google’s defense that ‘we Read more »
Google To Pay Record Fine for Violating FTC Order, “Tricking the System”
Thursday, August 9th, 2012
Today the FTC announced that Google will pay a record $22.5 million fine, the largest FTC penalty ever for violation of a Commission order. Google settled charges that it that it “misrepresented to users of Apple Inc.’s Safari Internet browser that it would not place tracking ‘cookies’ or serve targeted ads to those users,” clearly Read more »
Gizmodo Blogger: “Has Google Reached a Point Where It MUST Be Evil?”
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Late last week, Gizmodo wrote “The Case Against Google” which confirmed something that many are feeling, especially after Google changed its privacy policy: “People don’t trust Google with their data. And that’s new.” Author Mat Honan goes on to say that, “Google is a fundamentally different company than it has been in the past. Its Read more »
36 State Attorneys General Express Concerns About Google’s New Privacy Policy
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Today, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) sent a letter signed by Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler (and NAAG President-Elect) and 35 other State Attorneys General to Google CEO Larry Page expressing concern over Google’s new privacy policy. According to the letter, Google’s new privacy policy, effective March 1, will force “consumers to allow Read more »
Google Busted: Lies Not Once, But Twice About FairSearch.org “Good To Know” Campaign
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
We’ve come to expect Google to stretch the truth a bit. But even we were taken aback when we recently discovered the company outright misleading the public on the facts about our latest ad campaign. It started when Google Policy Manager Betsy Masiello wrote the following on the company’s Public Policy Blog on February 1, Read more »
Why Europe Shouldn’t Trust Google
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Over the course of the last few years, Google has become the focus of antitrust investigations around the world. From South Korea to the European Commission to the United States, international regulators are working to determine whether Google has abused its monopoly power in search and search advertising. Google is worthy of investigation. Given its Read more »
Does Anyone Think Google+ Search Is in the Best Interest of Users?
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Google’s announcement that its search results would now prominently feature social content from Google+ raised concerns from around the web. But those within Google must feel that Search+ is in the best interest of users. Right? After all, the first “core principle” Google lists in its 10-point “Our philosophy” page is: “Focus on the user and Read more »
Google Once Again Demonstrates Why “Trust Us” Is Not Enough
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Google says its number one principle is to “do what’s best for the user.” So it’s troubling when we see Google, once again, putting its own interests (advertising profits) ahead of consumers’. The BBC recently uncovered how Google is profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ad sales. A consumer who was deceived by one of the Read more »
Trust Us? Google on Doing What’s Best for Users (IMAGE)
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Google PR says its number one principle is to “do what’s best for the user.” Google says, “We make hundreds of changes to our algorithms every year to improve your search experience. Not every website can come out at the top of the page, or even appear on the first page of our search results.” Read more »
