Google’s Not Perfect On Privacy, But It’s Not That Bad

By Ciaran | June 11th, 2007 | Privacy & Data Protection, Google

A recent report on how companies deal with their users’ privacy has been attracting a lot of attention, especially the fact that it ranked Google as the worst offender in terms of data protection. That claim seems to have been accepted by most of the mainstream media, but is not being treated so lightly in the search sector.

Danny Sullivan makes a very good case for why the conclusions of the report should be taken with a large pinch of salt (and Danny is always very balanced in his views). And Matt Cutts (who it has to be said is a Google employee) also points out some major cases where Google’s attitude to privacy is obviously more honourable than some of it’s competitors.

Despite the fact that Google obviously still has a very strong reputation (judging by the fact that they have been voted the most valuable brand in the world, and everyone wants to work there), this just goes to show how much press you can get by slamming Google, even when you don’t really have the evidence to back it up.

Google ate my hamster anyone?

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