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Letter to Google CEO from Privacy Commissioner of Canada etc.

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
14 years ago2,821 views

Reference:

http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2010/let_100420_e.cfm

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Canada ? There are dozen of countries with it! :-)

BTW, you can sum up this letter to this sentence : "Hey Google, stop doing shit like Google Buzz!"

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Taken from
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/20/google_buzz_privacy_complaints_mount/print.html

"Canada's privacy chief is the latest high-profile politico to hit out at Google for its ill-considered stealth launch of Buzz in Gmail earlier this year.

The country's privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart penned a joint letter [link mentioned] to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt in which data protection authorities from Canada, Israel, the UK, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Germany and the Netherlands lambasted the company for overlooking privacy values and legislation.

"We were disturbed by your recent rollout of the Google Buzz social networking application, which betrayed a disappointing disregard for fundamental privacy norms and laws," reads the letter.
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