Looks like Google is the next big entity to get nickel and dimed by the government.
Piracy Police Want FTC To Investigate Google Cloud Services | Search Journal: "The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation of Google's cloud computing services including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Desktop, Google Calendar and Picasa to determine 'the adequacy of the privacy and security safeguards' and enjoin Google from offering them until they are.
It wants Google ordered to revise its terms of service, make its security policies more transparent, report all incidents of data loss and data breach to the FTC and kick in $5 million to a public fund to support research into privacy-enhancing technologies.
What got EPIC's lather up was the discovery a couple of weeks ago that Google's vaunted Google Docs service accidentally shared some users' documents with folks who weren't authorized to see them.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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