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Google draws line in privacy/anonymity sand - threatens no gmail if data retention is mandated
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:58:46 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Ethan Ackerman <eackerma () u washington edu> Date: June 25, 2007 8:21:49 AM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Google draws line in privacy/anonymity sand - threatens no gmail if data retention is mandated
According to a German business weekly's interview of Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, Google "would shut off Google Mail in Germany" before complying with the proposed German implementation of the EU Data Retention law. Google's opposition centers on the proposed German law's prohibition of anonymity in account details and the German law's requirements that data returned over to police not be anonymized (a practice Google does with all search data after 18 months.) Google supports anonymous email and values its users' privacy, and Gmail would rather not provide service to one market than have a loss of trust in every market, according to the interview. (Two major German news magazines, Heise and Spiegel, provide English coverage of the original WiWo article in German.)http://www.wiwo.de/pswiwo/fn/ww2/sfn/buildww/id/126/id/280127/fm/0/SH/ 0/depot/0/index.html
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