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Google Gets Lowest Rating For Consumer Privacy — Federal Trade Commission is looking into antitrust concerns raised by Google’s DoubleClick deal. UPDATED: with YouTube clip on “How To Hide From Google”

Posted by Catherine Morgan on June 9, 2007

Watchdog Group Slams Google

In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with “comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy.”

None of the 22 other surveyed companies — a group that included Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL — sunk to that level, according to Privacy International.

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