<A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/11/google.privacy.ap/">Google's privacy practices are the worst</A> among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."