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The US Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search-engine's users, as the company recently contended.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.
A new feature in Google Desktop 3 that allows people to search for documents across multiple computers poses privacy risks and should not be used, a consumer digital rights organisation and a security company have warned.
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Google denies the information it collects from users of its Google Election platform causes any tension between its commercial interests and its promise to protect users' privacy.
An audit of e-commerce Web sites by the Victorian government has found less than one percent met all the requirements for the Commonwealth 'Best Practice' model.
In moving beyond Web search to the desktop, the company faces a slew of challenges: controversy over privacy, technical hurdles and the rivalry of Microsoft among them.
Google faces a difficult task if it tries to transplant its successful Web search business to the desktop.
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