FTC Releases Google Privacy Audit, Blacks Out the Details 57
chicksdaddy writes "Google could tell you about its privacy practices except, well....they're private. That's the conclusion privacy advocates are drawing after the Federal Trade Commission took a black marker to an independent audit of the company's privacy practices before releasing it to the group EPIC in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Security Ledger is reporting that the FTC released a copy of a Price Waterhouse Coopers audit of Google that was mandated as part of a settlement with the FTC over complaints following a 2010 complaint by EPIC over privacy violations in Google Buzz, a now-defunct social networking experiment. However, the agency acceded to Google requests to redact descriptions of the search giant's internal procedures and the design of its privacy program."
3 types of data: Log, Account and ??? (Score:4, Interesting)
Interesting, the report specifies that user data is 1 of 3 types,
- Log data (user activity)
- Account data (Users emails, settings, etc)
- Third type is redacted.. Wonder what it is
Re:Hard to avoid Google's tracking (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, I came across another sneaky way with which Google is gathering data: Google fonts.
It means Google gets a hit every time a website with a CSS layout using Google fonts because it needs to call the fonts API to get them..