Last month the company announced changes that are meant to improve its internal privacy and security practices, including enhancing training for employees on information-security awareness and requiring every engineering project leader to maintain a "privacy design document for each initiative they are working on, " Mr. Eustace said in the post.

WSJ: FCC Investigating Google Data Collection

Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which questioned the protocol's design, scalability and security.

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