FTC Chairman: Google Offers ‘Brutal Choice’ on Privacy Policies

The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said on Sunday that Google was giving consumers a “binary and somewhat brutal” choice on whether they want to go along with the changes to the company’s privacy policies set to go into effect next week.Jon Leibowitz was asked by Tech Daily Dose during an appearance on C-Span’s Newsmakers show whether he is personally concerned about the changes Google is making to its privacy policies. The company announced last month that it was consolidating more than 60 privacy policies and that it would begin tracking consumers as they move from one Google service to another.
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