Google Glass News: Company Says Privacy Policy Will Not Be Changed for Google Glass

Google's Glass project is raising questions in Congress, as the House Congressional Privacy Caucus has sent Google a series of questions regarding the upcoming hardware's privacy settings.

Congress has also reportedly asked whether Google was open to amending its privacy policy.

Venture Beat discovered that Google has refused to change its privacy settings in response to the questions and issues raised by Congress, citing a letter to Congressman Joe Barton.

Barton co-chairs the Congressional Privacy Caucus, which sent Google its questions.

Google flatly declined Congress, saying that its existing privacy settings has already addressed the issues posted.

Susan Molinari, Google's vice president for public policy and government relations, said that no changes will be made to the company's privacy settings just because of a new technology such as glass.

However, while product testers, called Glass Explorers, are not allowed to give, lend, or sell Glass to anyone else, the internet giant said that it's going to be hard to give its users the same rules.

"While we ask participants in our Explorer program not to sell or transfer their Glass," Molinari said in her reply, "users who someday transfer Glass to others will have options for removing their content from the device."

At the moment, Glass allows for users to manually delete content. Aside from that, the MyGlass website allows for a factory reset, which wipes out Glass data remotely.

It would seem, Venture Beat writes, that there could be options better than individually deleting content or wiping all of the content from the device.

Google is also working on a lock option to prevent data from being stolen.

"We are experimenting with 'lock' solutions to determine what would work best for this type of device," Molinari added. "In the event a device is misplaced or somehow compromised, users can use their Google account to login to MyGlass and initiate a remote wipe of all data stored on Glass, as described above."

Marketing Land, meanwhile, reports that Congress is not yet impressed with Google's response, saying that the internet company has not answered the privacy committee's questions.