Bigger than Beacon: Politician presses Google on privacy issues
Forget Beacon, the controversial new Facebook advertising feature that tracks what you buy on other sites, then sends that information to your friends on Facebook. Politicians are getting serious about bigger privacy issues on the web. Ranking Republican Rep. Joe Barton (Texas) is going after Google and its prospective $3.1 billion purchase of advertising network DoubleClick.
Yesterday, Barton sent a 24-question letter to Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, asking in detail about both DoubleClick’s and Google’s… Continue Reading