Google has a rapacious appetite to collect data of every kind. They also seem to have a casual and lax attitude to the collection of that data. I really don't t

Google has a rapacious appetite to collect data of every kind. They also seem to have a casual and lax attitude to the collection of that data. I really don't think they take privacy that seriously at all (security and privacy are not always the same things). Just to recall some facts about Google's wi-fi exploit : various regulators around the world have mostly agreed with Google's assertion that it did not deliberately plan to collect wi-fi data. Yet this incident also suggests a lax internal culture towards gathering data. This incident occurred without consequence for Google until it was discovered by external investigators. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when they were investigating Google over this matter, said that Google had "deliberately impeded and delayed" the investigation for months. Earlier this year, Google were given 35 days to delete wi-fi data by the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Google had earlier pledged to destroy additional discs containing private data but had failed to do so. Does this sound like a company where privacy and data collection are treated with high importance? Let's not forget that Google collects a phenomenal amount of tracking data. Sure, they take security seriously, but do they take privacy seriously? The facts above are taken from the following BBC report: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23002166