As per a document reviewed by the news agency Reuters, internet tech giant and search engine Google will acknowledge that it has committed “mistakes” on privacy issues in the testimony which will be delivered by an executive of the Alphabet unit before the US Senate committee on Wednesday.

“We acknowledge that we have made mistakes in the past, from which we have learned, and improved our robust privacy program,” Google chief privacy officer Keith Enright will acknowledge in a written testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. Google will be among the companies that are slated to testify alongside AT&T, Amazon.com, Apple, and other companies amid growing issues about data privacy.

The written testimony by Google did not specifically cite any of its prior mistakes, but as the company is under pressure over privacy issues, hence the testimony.

Back in the year 2012, Google agreed over the payment of USD 22.5 million (roughly Rs. 163 crores) civil penalty to settle the matter of Federal Trade Commission charges which claimed that the company misrepresented to the users of Apple Safari Internet browser that would not place tracking “cookies” or supply them with targeted ads.

One year earlier to that, Google agreed to an FTC privacy settlement and regular privacy audits for a period of 20 years after the government charged the company of using misleading tactics and the promises of consumer privacy when it launched its social networking platform, Google Buzz.

Alphabet company was sued in August after accusations were made of illegally tracking movements of millions of iPhone and Android phone users even when they were using a privacy setting by opting out of it.

In the recent wake of tough new rules adopted by the European Union and California, the US Commerce Department too said that it was in the process of seeking solutions about how to set nationwide data privacy rules.

Apart from that, the US Justice Department said that it held a session of listening with the state attorney general about how to safeguard consumers over the internet.

Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune wrote that the Congress needs to work on working out a framework of consumer data privacy protections into law.

The US Congress wants to know about the mode of operating inside the internet companies to sell advertising and use data from email accounts or other services.

Due to the large breaches of data privacy, resulting in the compromising of personal information of millions of US Internet and social media users, which include notable breaches that were reported at large retailers.

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