Reuters reports Google plans to launch ads similar to Facebook’s “social” ads, which incorporate photos, comments and names of users. The changes were announced in the company’s revised terms of service last week. EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg said such ads unfairly commercialize Internet users’ images. Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)  has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look at Google’s privacy changes, writing in a letter to the FTC that the policy raises questions about “whether Google is altering its privacy policy in a manner inconsistent with its consent agreement with the commission and, if the changes go into effect, the degree to which users’ identities, words and opinions could be shared across the web.”
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