Google fined $22.5M for privacy 'misrepresentations' Around Town, posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Aug 9, 2012 at 10:25 am
Google will be required to pay a $22.5 million penalty after the Federal Trade Commission charged the Mountain View-based Internet search giant with misrepresenting its privacy settings to its users.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, August 9, 2012, 9:55 AM
Posted by wow, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood, on Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 am
Of course you do. Google's wilful and fraudulent misrepresentations are entirely beside the point. Why should Google be penalized for lying to the FTC. Just because Google circumvented apple's privacy settings is also beside the point.
The point is Apple is the culprit because...because... because you say so. Let's not let the facts stand in the way of who we want to blame.
Posted by Wondering?, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Aug 9, 2012 at 3:06 pm
Maybe it's too late to be asking this question, but what gives the FTC the power over the "planting of cookies" on my, or anyone's machines? Is there Federal legislation effectively declaring "cookies" some sort of "controlled substance"?
Or is the FTC off sticking its nose in somewhere it doesn't really have the authority to be?
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