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Telecoms industry body the Communications Alliance has called on the government to support a lighter regulatory touch for broadband.
Google is leading the call to create a global standard for how companies deal with private consumer data, but part of the search giant's proposal is that remedies focus on whether harm was actually caused by the information leak.
The findings of a report that commended the privacy policies of search engine providers such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, has been slammed as bias because of potentially conflicting financial arrangements with the report's publisher.
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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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