Google Privacy Changes Must Be Stopped, Group’s Lawsuit Says

Google Inc.’s planned changes to its privacy policy violate a consent order signed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last year and should be blocked, a Washington advocacy group said in a lawsuit.

Google’s plan to streamline privacy settings for some 60 different services and products on March 1 would allow the company to combine more information about users, reduce users’ control of their own data and give more personal information to advertisers, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said. The group seeks to compel the FTC to enforce the consent decree.