Privacy is no ''''luxury good'''', says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Privacy is no ''''luxury good'''', says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

 

Sundar Pichai gives a keynote address during the opening day of the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Google unveiled a new corporate structure on August 10, 2015, creating a parent company dubbed Alphabet led by chief executive Larry Page. AFP

 

Privacy is no 'luxury good', says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

  • Google has been facing questions about the collection of its users' location data
  • At its annual I/O developer conference this week, Google has announced a slew of additional privacy and security tools for its users across products and platforms

 

Topics

Sundar PichaiGoogle

New York: Privacy cannot be a "luxury good" that's only available to people who can afford to buy premium products and services, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said.

In an op-ed written for The New York Times, Pichai defended his company's approach to privacy and users' data.

"Privacy must be equally available to everyone in the world, Google's approach is to make privacy more democratic," Pichai wrote on Tuesday.

Google has been facing questions about the collection of its users' location data.

"People today are rightly concerned about how their information is used and shared, yet they all define privacy in their own ways. I've seen this firsthand as I talk to people in different parts of the world.

"Privacy is personal, which makes it even more vital for companies to give people clear, individual choices around how their data is used," wrote Pichai.

At its annual I/O developer conference this week, Google has announced a slew of additional privacy and security tools for its users across products and platforms.

 

"For everyone" is a core philosophy for Google; it's built into our mission to create products that are universally accessible and useful. That's why Search works the same for everyone, whether you're a professor at Harvard or a student in rural Indonesia," Pichai noted.

He also called on the US to introduce a new legislation for protecting users' data.

"Legislation will help us work toward ensuring that privacy protections are available to more people around the world," Pichai added.

This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text

Source:Live Mint

 

 

Comments

blog comment

Test name February 19, 2016 Reply

There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text.

blog comment

Test name February 19, 2016

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

blog comment

Test name February 19, 2016Reply

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Leave a Comment