Google’s Privacy Infringements Kurt Ladendorf

Google’s Mantra “Don’t be evil”

Buzz Social network attempt Automatic enrollment Default setting to publicize recipients Caused a class action lawsuit – Results in Google putting $8.5 million towards privacy education Federal Trade Commission involvement

Safari Google placed cookies on Safari browsers and presented targeted ads Google had explicitly stated they would not Federal Trade Commission fined Google $22.5 million Broke the agreement with the FTC from the Buzz incident

Gmail Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign Google uses keywords from to sell ads Google does not show tailored ads “…based on race, religion, sexual orientation or health” Google allows some control over ad settings

Street View Google collected geographical locations of Wi-Fi routers – Used for location of devices Google collected 600gb of network traffic Google blames experimental software in 2010 Google knew about the data collection in 2007

Street View Google created a way to opt-out – Adding “_nomap” to router’s SSID Multistate investigation resulted in – $7 million settlement – Employee privacy education – Google must fund a public campaign for privacy awareness

New Privacy Policy Combines 60+ policies European Union has concerns er_embedded&v=KGghlPmebCY er_embedded&v=KGghlPmebCY

Can Google ever be trusted again?

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Sources Liedtke, Michael “Google grabs personal info off of Wi-Fi netwroks” Associated Press 5/14/ personal-info-apf html?x=0 Web. Accessed 4/26/ personal-info-apf html?x=0 Vaas, Lisa “Google controversially forces users to opt-out of Wi-Fi snooping” Naked Security 11/17/ Web. Accessed: 4/26/2013http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/17/google-forces-opt-out-wi-fi-snooping/ Vaas, Lisa “EU tells Google to make its new privacy policy clearer and to give users easier opt-out” Naked Security 10/16/ its-new-privacy-policy-clearer-and-to-give-users-easier-opt-out/ Web. Accessed: 4/26/2013http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/16/eu-tells-google-to-make- its-new-privacy-policy-clearer-and-to-give-users-easier-opt-out/ Pfanner, Eric “Google Faces More Inquiries in Europe Over Privacy Policy” The New York Times 4/2/ over-privacy-policy.html Web. Accessed: 4/26/2013http:// over-privacy-policy.html “FTC Charges Deceptive Privacy Practices in Google’s Rollout of Its Buzz Social Network” Federal Trade Commission 3/30/ Web. Accessed: 4/26/2013http:// Ducklin, Paul “Buzz over Google’s $8.5 million lawsuit settlement” Naked Security 11/3/ Web. Accessed: 4/26/ “Google to Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock” Google 10/9/ Web. Accessed: 4/28/2013