Letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt Regarding Privacy Policy Change
Mr. Eric E. Schmidt Chairman & Chief Executive Office Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear Mr. Schmidt:
We are writing to object to Google's "simplified" privacy policy that will take effect on October 3, 2010. In a post on Google's company blog on September 3, Mike Yang stated that the changes would make Google's privacy practices "more transparent and understandable." It will also reduce privacy safeguards for hundreds of millions of users of Google's Internet-based services.
Under this new policy, twelve specific Google privacy policies will be replaced by a single policy that will enable greater data sharing within the corporation. As Yang explained, "[s]ince contacts are shared between services like Gmail, Talk, Calendar and Docs, it makes sense for those services to be governed by one privacy policy."
