Google blocks privacy push at the group that sets web standards

Technologists and experts called Google’s plan 'a mess' and said some of the ideas were actually bad for privacy. — Bloomberg

Google blocked a privacy push at the main organisation that decides how the world wide web works, according to a recent vote that isolated the Internet giant from others involved in the process.

The Alphabet Inc unit was the only member of the World Wide Web Consortium to vote against the measure to expand the power of the organisation’s Internet privacy group, according to a tally of the results viewed by Bloomberg News. Twenty four organisations voted for the idea in a recent poll.