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Legal advocates push for Google Books privacy
- From: Brian Warkoczeski
- Date: Fri Jul 24 09:47:39 2009
Legal advocates push for Google Books privacy
by Elinor Mills
July 23, 2009
www.cnet.com
Google should promise to protect the privacy of consumers with its Book
Search service, the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Samuelson
Law Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law said in a
letter to the search giant on Thursday.
"Under its current design, Google Book Search keeps track of what books
readers search for and browse, what books they read, and even what they
'write' down in the margins," the groups wrote in a letter (PDF) to
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt.
"Given the long and troubling history of government and third-party
efforts to compel libraries and booksellers to turn over records about
readers, it is essential that Google Books incorporate strong privacy
protections in both the architecture and policies of Google Book
Search," the letter said. "Without these, Google Books could become a
one-stop shop for government and civil-litigant fishing expeditions into
the private lives of Americans."
In 2006, the U.S. Attorney demanded that Amazon turn over book purchase
records of 24,000 customers, the groups said in an e-mail statement.
For rest of article, see:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10294519-93.html?tag=mncol;title
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