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CommentWednesday, June 11, 2008

Google Says It Would Back Federal Privacy Law

Does not want states involved

Google has informed a senior Republican representative that it would endorse and support a U.S. privacy law.

The amount of user's personal information collected by Google, Yahoo and other online companies has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and Google has been urged to post a link on its homepage that takes users to its privacy policy.

In May, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, asked Google for information about the company's privacy policies since it purchased DoubleClick.

Google said in a letter dated June 6, that it would be in favor of a federal Internet privacy law.

In the letter from Alan Davidson, Google's chief lobbyist wrote,"Google supports the adoption of a comprehensive federal privacy law that would accomplish several goals such as building consumer trust and protections; creating a uniform framework for privacy, which would create consistent levels of privacy from one jurisdiction to another; and putting penalties in place to punish and dissuade bad actors."

Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, questioned Google's support of a federal privacy law. Rotenberg told Reuters that when companies endorse a "comprehensive law" they typically want something that would override stricter state laws.

 

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Mike is a staff writer for WebProNews.

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