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Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:34:44 -0400


http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/google-fights-for-the-right-to-hide-its-privacy-policy/index.html?ref=technology

Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy
By SAUL HANSELL
What’s one way that Google is different from AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft? It’s the only one of the big Internet companies that doesn’t put a link to its privacy policy on its home page.

Indeed, Google believes so strongly that adding the phrase “privacy policy” to its famously Spartan home page would distract users that it has picked a fight with an advertising trade group over the issue.


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