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Let’s All Pile On Google

Seems like everyone’s lining up to take a legal shot at Google these days. If it’s not the DoJ, then it’s the Italian government. Here’s another one: according to the NY Times, in light of last week’s Google Docs oopsie, the Electronic Privacy Information Center has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to:

“look into the adequacy of privacy and security safeguards of Google’s services and to require Google to be accountable for breaches. It also asks the agency to force Google to make its security policies more transparent and to disclose any breaches. It also asks the F.T.C. to enjoin Google from offering cloud computing services until it establishes verifiable safeguards.”

Geeze … anything else, while they’re at it?

EPIC says they’re not picking on Google specifically:

“Marc Rotenberg, EPIC’s executive director, said he was concerned about all cloud computing services, which encourage users to store a growing number of documents on the servers of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. But he said that EPIC focused on Google because it is the primary provider of cloud computing services to consumers.”

I beg to differ. Check out our list of cloud services. And ten minutes ago I just blogged about Scribd, which lets you store books and docs in the cloud. Let’s be real — EPIC is picking on Google to maximize the publicity.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).