FTC Chairman Leibowitz: Google should step up on privacy

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz says there's one big laggard when it comes to "Do Not Track" — Google — and he'd like to see more from the company that offers the Chrome browser.

Chairman Leibowitz called out Google for not adopting a Do Not Track tool even as its industry rivals have seemingly jumped to do so over the past few months, in part to show they're serious about online privacy. "They've been a lot of developments on Do Not Track, which has been terrific," Leibowitz said. "Apple just announced they're going to put it in their Safari browser. So that gives you Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla. "Really the only holdout — the only company that hasn't evolved as much as we would like on this — is Google,” he continued. “But they're moving in the right direction."