Google's Cloudy Security Under Fire

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The Federal Trade Commission is being asked to investigate Internet search giant Google for a lack of security in its cloud-computing services, a framework of software and services in which applications and data reside on third-party servers that provide remote access through Web-based devices.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a Washington, D.C.-based public-interest group, filed the complaint and is asking for an injunction by the FTC to stop Google from offering any of its cloud services until the FTC has investigated Google's safeguarding of consumers' information.

The complaint comes just 10 days after Google announced that it had unintentionally disclosed user-generated documents stored on its cloud-computing service.

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