privacy groups

One of the more idiotic accusations thrown at Google of late was this idea that it was somehow a problem that it didn't link directly to its privacy policy from its home page.

It had a privacy policy. That privacy policy was easy to find. Almost no one actually reads its privacy policy -- but a bunch of privacy groups who surely had more important things to spend their time on got all upset that Google refused to link from its front page.

Charter Communications' plan to track users' web surfing and hand the data over to ad agencies is attracting increasing Congressional attention.

The heads of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee have already asked Charter to stop, and a coalition of privacy groups call on them to initiate an investigation.

Last week, we wrote about the ridiculous concerns being raised by a few privacy advocates that (gasp!) Google doesn't include a link to its privacy policy on the front page.

This seemed like a really pointless concern since almost no one reads these privacy policies anyway, and those who do often misunderstand the policy anyway.