{"id":247,"date":"2007-06-11T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=247"},"modified":"2007-06-11T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T23:39:16","slug":"google-named-worst-privacy-offender-in-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/google-named-worst-privacy-offender-in-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Google named worst privacy offender in study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/picture-1-2.png\" rel=\"shadowbox[sbpost-247];player=img;\"  onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/picture-1-2.png','popup','width=160,height=62,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/picture-1-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"258\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Picture 1-2\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070611-google-named-worst-privacy-offender-in-study.html\" >Google named worst privacy offender in study<\/a>:<br \/>\nGoogle named worst privacy offender in study<br \/>\nBy Nate Anderson | Published: June 11, 2007 &#8211; 05:51AM CT<\/p>\n<p>Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates<br \/>\nIntroducing iGoogle: Google&#8217;s Personalized Homepage rebranded<br \/>\nA new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. Despite recent moves to anonymize server logs and other pro-privacy gestures, Privacy International called the company &#8220;an endemic threat to privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only Google earned the dismal &#8220;black&#8221; color bar from the group, which has just issued a report on Internet privacy that took six months to assemble (see the rankings [PDF]). The current report is preliminary; final results will be released in September.<\/p>\n<p>The report rated top Internet companies on privacy issues and distilled the various results into a single color bar. Microsoft was two ranks up from Google, earning a curry-colored &#8220;serious lapses&#8221; rating. Amazon scored one level higher with its yellow &#8220;notable lapses&#8221; rank, and eB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google named worst privacy offender in study: Google named worst privacy offender in study By Nate Anderson | Published: June 11, 2007 &#8211; 05:51AM CT Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates Introducing iGoogle: Google&#8217;s Personalized Homepage rebranded A new report puts Google in last place when it comes to privacy protection. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/google-named-worst-privacy-offender-in-study\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google named worst privacy offender in study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}