Google — the company that championed the concept that no piece of information was too small not to be indexed for public consumption — is calling for the development of a global privacy standard. The Internet has been leveraged in countries that have no such policies, said Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer in an address to a UNESCO conference. Without a standard in place, confidence in the channel — ubiquitous though it may be — will eventually be shaken, even for very routine transactions, he contended.
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Google Sounds Clarion Call for Global Privacy Standard
Posted by: Erika Morphy September 17, 2007 07:56 AMGoogle — the company that championed the concept that no piece of information was too small not to be indexed for public consumption — is calling for the development of a global privacy standard. The Internet has been leveraged in countries that have no such policies, said Google Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer in an address to a UNESCO conference. Without a standard in place, confidence in the channel — ubiquitous though it may be — will eventually be shaken, even for very routine transactions, he contended.