While other people testifying, such as privacy advocate JustinBrookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology, pointed out that this is a problem for consumer privacy, Weinstein just expressed jealousy.
As JustinBrookman of the Center for Democracy and Technology points out, getting privacy wrong was also a death sentence for spyware company Claria and online advertising company NebuAd.
"It's a pretty clear case of deception, " said JustinBrookman, director of consumer privacy project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, an Internet advocacy nonprofit that gets some of its funding from Google.