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Thursday, 3rd September 2009

An Update on Google Books and Privacy

From the Blog Post:

Since last spring, we've had detailed discussions with a number of groups about our privacy practices within Google Books as well as some of our preliminary thoughts about what privacy protections we want to build into services authorized by our settlement agreement. As part of our outreach, we talked to Federal Trade Commission staff to hear their thoughts and answer their questions on privacy and Books. Rather than limit our conversations to the FTC and other specific organizations, though, we wanted to share the results of our exchange with the wider public by releasing a formal Privacy Policy for Google Books, and by highlighting a letter we recently sent to the FTC on Google Books and privacy.

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Our privacy policies are usually based on detailed review of a final product -- and on weeks, months or years of careful work engineering the product itself to protect privacy. In this case, we've planned in advance for the protections that will later be built, and we've described some of those in the Google Books policy. We have also covered several privacy issues in our letter to the FTC on Google Books. You can read more of that exchange on the FTC's website here.

See Also: Google Books Privacy Policy FAQ

Source: Inside Google Book Search

See Also: Search Engine Land Analyst Greg Sterling Offers Some Thoughts on Google and Privacy (via SEL)

See Also: Is “Trust Us” Good Enough? (via Open Book Alliance Blog)

See Also: Privacy Group [EPIC] Asks to Join Google Book Lawsuit As Deadline Approaches (via Wired)
Blog Post from EPIC Available Here.


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