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Privacy groups accuse Google of leaking data to China
Search giant says complaint to Federal Trade Commission based on flawed understanding of how its digital advertising technology works
Filed under the new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, the complaint alleges that Google has known for a decade that the technology broadcasts sensitive data without any security, and that chief executive Sundar Pichai allegedly failed to act on in-house calls to reform the system, citing internal Google communications. It said the system collects personally identifiable sensitive data about people in the United States from other businesses, potentially revealing their employment with the military and intelligence community, locations, political views, sexuality, ethnicity and online behaviour. Epic’s senior counsel Sara Geoghegan called on the FTC to take action, saying Americans’ data was being exposed to “foreign adversaries, undermining democracy and threatening our national security”.
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