The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission so that it would act on preventing Google from implementing its new privacy policy. The suit was filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia and asked for an injunction against the new rules that was set to take effect on March 1.
Last month, Google announced that it would it would update its privacy policy so that it would allow the company to combine personal information from different products and services. The company’s 60 privacy policy for different services would be combined into one that was designed to make it simpler and easy to understand.
EPIC claimed that the upcoming policy changes are violations of a 2011 settlement agreement between the group and Google over privacy issues regarding the launch of Google Buzz. After it was launched in February 2010, the online search giant changed its privacy rules because it said it had a hard time to make a user’s list of followers private.
The privacy backlash led to the settlement agreement that required Google to implement a more structured privacy program and let independent professionals to audit Google’s privacy practices for the next 20 years.
