Alert: Consumer
and Privacy Groups Urge Google to Post a Link to Its
Privacy Policy from Its Home Page
June 3, 2008
June 10, 2008 UPDATE -- California Assemblymember Joel Anderson (R - La Mesa) wrote CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt, urging him to comply with California law and post a link to its privacy policy on the Google home page.
SAN DIEGO, WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of privacy and
consumer organizations from California to Washington, D.C.
have urged Google to post a prominent link on its homepage
to its privacy policy. In a letter released June 3rd, 2008,
the groups say this is required by California law and is
the widespread practice of commercial web sites.
The organizations include the California-based
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the World Privacy Forum, Consumer
Action, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Consumer Federation
of California, and ACLU of Northern California, among others.
Google has come under criticism recently
for failing to post a homepage link to its privacy policy,
saying that it did not want to clutter its homepage. But
several experts, including the head of the California Office
of Privacy Protection, have said that Google should include
the link.
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