Google asked to explain its privacy policy in the U.S. Congress
Two U.S. lawmakers asked the head of Google Larry Page to explain to Congress the new privacy policy presented by the group of search engine last week. The two elected Republican Mary Bono Mack and Democrat GK Butterfield, members of a subcommittee of the House of Representatives for Trade, have made their request in a letter Friday, Jan. 27 to Mr. Page, Executive Director of Californian group.
Google announced last week a review of its privacy policy in an objective “for simplification and clarity” : one to replace charter from the 1 st March 1st sixty rules applied so far. Specifically, the group will combine the “user information” from a number of previously separate services (such as email or social network Gmail Google +) to have a vision of “global” a “single user” , according to its terms.
While “applauding” the changes going in the direction of greater clarity, the two officials expressed their “concern” about “how users ‘personal information will be collected, combined, stored and used’ . The request of elected officials, which has no binding, called Mr. Page, the representative or someone to provide the answers by Friday.
The changes announced by Google, while also involved the European Union has just announced a review of its policy on private data.
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