Today I read on the news that Google promotes a global standard of privacy legislation across countries. A Google representative has met with the UNESCO to discuss the issue.

Clearly, for Google, privacy laws can represent a barrier for their business model. This is true for several similar organizations: Yahoo, Altavista, LinkedIn, Facebook and so many others whose business is to handle information, promote targeted advertisement or collect personal information to customize services for customers.

These companies are often criticized for paying little to no attention to privacy concerns of their customers and users. However, such criticism is flawed, as this article will show.

People and businesses alike have benefited immensely from the Internet, and some of the key Internet “utilities” making Internet extremely useful and attractive are precisely …

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