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Ask Google To Protect Your Privacy

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Google is the focal point of the warehousing of private data of Internet users in the world. Company technologists are tracking every search, site visit and browsing pattern to customize search results and marketing opportunities for individuals based on what should be the individual’s private browsing habits. There are no rules for what information is tracked or how it is stored or used. Google, as the leading Internet technology company in America, should agree to basic privacy rights for its users.

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Subject: Ask Google To Protect Your Privacy

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Dear Google Board of Directors,

We believe privacy is a fundamental right of every person.  Corporations like Google believe, however, that individual privacy does not exist innately because it defeats the ability of corporations to know about consumers  and,  thus, serve  them better by proposing new commercial opportunities.  As a result, our personal information is tracked and stored without permission.

Google is the focal point  of  the warehousing of private data of Internet users in the world.  Company technologists are tracking every search, site visit and browsing pattern to customize search results and marketing opportunities for individuals based on what should be the individual’s private browsing habits.  There are no rules for what information is tracked or how it is stored or used. Google, as the  leading Internet technology company in America, should agree to basic privacy rights for its users.

#1 Disclosure --- Google should to disclose to its users the data it is tracking as it is being tracked.  The “safe search” technology that applies to children should be offered to adults to make their searches and browsing anonymous.

#2 Control --  Every Google users should be allowed to manage and erase stored data from their account to make it private.

Google founders have articulated their commitment to protecting their users’ privacy rights recently.  While these innovative pioneers are still in control of the company, it is imperative that Google pioneer new privacy rules that others will follow. We urge you to take such action immediately before less altruistic people and institutions come to control the company and its holdings.

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This letter will be sent to the following individual(s):

Sergey Brin, Google Board Member
John Doerr, Google Board Member
John Hennessy, Google Board Member
Arthur Levinson, Google Board Member
Ann Mather, Google Board Member
Paul S. Otellini, Google Board Member
Larry Page, Google Board Member
Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman & CEO
Ram Shriram, Google Board Member
Shirley M. Tilghman, Google Board Member

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