Privacy warriors sue FTC over Google's policy tweak

2/9/2012

Failure to halt imminent changes makes EPIC angry

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the US Federal Trade Commission for failing to take action against Google's plans to change its terms of service on 1 March.…

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