{"id":490,"date":"2007-06-10T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T01:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/06\/10\/google-accused-of-conducting-smear-campaign-against-privacy-international\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T13:00:22","slug":"google-accused-of-conducting-smear-campaign-against-privacy-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/06\/10\/google-accused-of-conducting-smear-campaign-against-privacy-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Accused of Conducting Smear Campaign Against Privacy International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100902210003\/http:\/\/www.privacyinternational.org\/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-553960\">Privacy International<\/a> is using strong words like &#8220;Google has embarked on a smear campaign within the media to discredit both PI  and the report&#8221;. It says more to follow. We&#8217;ll see if there is any substance to this. One thing is for sure, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/google-ranked-the-lowest-in-privacy-protection-study\/5067\/\">plenty<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/070610-100246.php\">discussion<\/a> out there. Thought provoking posts by Danny Sullivan and Donna Bogatin with considerable dirt.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain, Privacy International doesn&#8217;t think it&#8217;s important enough to put out a full reply on a weekend, that means it loses some credibility in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation runs 24\/7 out there not M-F 9-5.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I take that back, Privacy International <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100903051932\/http:\/\/www.privacyinternational.org\/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553964\">just published the new letter<\/a> which is addressed to Eric Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>So who is this Microsoft employee? And why wasn&#8217;t this person removed from the process before the report was created?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE #2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattcutts.com\/blog\/privacy-international-loses-all-credibility\/\">Matt Cutts has weighed in on the issues in a thoughtful way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy International is using strong words like &#8220;Google has embarked on a smear campaign within the media to discredit both PI and the report&#8221;. It says more to follow. We&#8217;ll see if there is any substance to this. One thing is for sure, there is plenty of discussion out there. Thought provoking posts by Danny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-goog","category-microsoft-msft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}