Internet Privacy Gains The Attention of Washington
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Friday asked Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. to cooperate with inquiries into their privacy practices.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) said he wants Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain Faebook’s privacy practices amid recent changes and consumer and media uproar. Conyers also said that he wants Google to retain the data and records related to the Wi-Fi data that the company’s Google Maps cars collected in recent years.
Conyers said “I want to ensure that privacy concerns are as paramount as creativity to these and all Internet companies, and I look forward to hearing about ways they can ensure this is the case.”