According to Reuters News Service, as of August, 2009, credit card companies have been forced by law to give consumers a better deal. For example, credit card companies now must give customers at least 21 calendar days to pay their monthly bills; and moreover, credit card companies will have to "…warn consumers 45 days in advance of major changes in conditions," based on the law President Obama signed in May of 2009 (Lagorio, 2009, p
Google did not deny this. In fact Google says it has gathered "600 gigabytes of data -- roughly equivalent to 300 million printed pages -- that Google says it inadvertently collected," according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News (Swift, 2010)