Facebook is in the privacy spotlight but should Google be next
Google is on the list, but I'm going to break away from the flock and say they shouldn't be <i>next</i>. Credit agencies and data brokers, who facilitate the worst kinds of third-party privacy violation and about whom most people know very little, should go next. Then the government itself. <i>Then</i> Google, and then Amazon.<p>BTW, if you want to have some fun, just try to imagine that the the government's interest in Facebook's data practices is not so much to regulate it as to <i>copy</i> it - either for the government itself or for election campaigns. IMO that makes a lot of their otherwise nonsensical or inconsistent behavior much more understandable. Creepy. They totally want to know more about us than Facebook and Google put together; they just don't know how.