Privacy Groups Miss The Point: It's Not Where Google's Privacy P...

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 06/04/2008 - 10:45

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.

Besides, there are plenty of companies out there that don't even abide by their own privacy policies. In other words, the real...

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