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Released: August 16, 2010

Google-Verizon plan raises privacy fears

Source: Noam Cohen, New York Times (Free Registration)

When elephants fight, the saying goes, only the grass gets trampled.

Last week, two elephants — Google and Verizon — came together to propose a vision for the Internet that represented what many characterize as a retreat by Google from its past strict adherence to so-called net neutrality. The phrase net neutrality, really more of a rallying cry than a technical term, describes a policy that would prohibit Internet service providers from exploiting their role in delivering information to favor their own content, or the content of the highest bidders.

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