Anonymity On The Internet

EDM number 2654 in 2010-12, proposed by Robert Halfon on 26/01/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Internet and cybercrime.

That this House is concerned at reports in the Wall Street Journal that Google may now be combining nearly all the information it has on its users, which could make it harder for them to remain anonymous; notes that Google's new policy is planned to take effect on 1 March 2012, but that this has not been widely advertised or highlighted to Google's users and customers, who now number more than 800 million people; and therefore concludes that Google should make efforts to consult on these changes and that the firm should be extremely careful in the months ahead not to risk the same kind of mass privacy violations that took place under its StreetView programme, which the Australian Minister for Communications called the largest privacy breach in historyacross western democracies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.