Almost any person who has every used a computer would know the name Google. Google is if I am not mistaken the largest search engine in the world. Recently Google called for web privacy laws to be enforced in countries. Every time you use your credit card it passes through 6 or 7 country boundaries meaning almost anyone can access this information. The Privacy chief of Google went before UN representatives and explained, "That without global standards of privacy the health of the internet is ask risk." He also said that since the fast rise of the net means that more people's information will be shipped around the world, meaning that we definitely need privacy laws. Three quarters of all of the countries do not have privacy laws, and since your information passes through 6 or 7 countries that means that probably at least 4 of these countries have no privacy laws. Mr. Fleischer the Google representative stated before his speech to the UN that, "If privacy principles can be agreed in such divergent countries, then we think that is a model for the rest of the world." I think that Google is right in saying that all countries need privacy laws because I am sure that most people would not want their private information stolen or looked at. I think that this should have been brought up earlier, but nonetheless Google was one of the first companies to bring this up and I think that it is a very important matter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6994776.stm
Friday, September 14, 2007
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