Congress and Google are clashing over Google's recent announcement about changes to its privacy practices. Google responded Tuesday to a letter from Congress asking about the nature of the changes, trying to make the case that "users' private information remains private." Rep. Ed Markey, for one, was not satisfied by the letter.
"It still appears that consumers will not be able to completely opt-out of data collection and information sharing among Google’s services," wrote Markey.
The idea that people should be able to opt out of a company's privacy policy strikes me as ludicrous. They can certainly object to it, and not be a customer of the company. Or object to a company sharing their information with third parties in new ways. But that's not what's happening here. I've already made this argument, though, so I'll let my friends from Xtranormal debate it:
