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Google's Missing Link
The absence of such a link on Google.com may seem inconsequential, particularly given that few people actually read privacy policies. But a number of privacy groups find the missing link to be "alarming." Fourteen privacy groups have written an open letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt urging the company to add a link on Google.com to their privacy policy. Aesthetic treason though it may be to clutter the nearly pristine Google.com, Google really ought to comply, even if doing so results in a slight statistical diminution of "user happiness" -- Google's measure of how pages perform. Clearly, Google is not keen to set a precedent that anyone with a grievance is entitled to redress on its home page. But the company has to make sure its public statements about privacy remain consistent with its actions. And it just looks bad for Google to insist that it reads the law differently than everyone else. It makes Google look like it's trying to pull one over on its users. What could boost user confidence in Google's ability to keep user information private more than a prominent privacy policy? |
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