Google Book Plan Hits Privacy Snag

Opposition to the pending Google book settlement took a turn Tuesday as civil rights groups told a federal court that the plan to digitize millions of books threatens readers’ privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic of the University of California claimed in a court brief that reading could be chilled from Google maintaining personal identifying information about what titles the public browses, reads and purchases. The groups joined a growing chorus opposed to Google’s pending plan.

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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 P2P News

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