[governance] Privacy Concerns Over Google On the Rise In Germany

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  Well it seems that the privacy concerns of our members in
germany has moved forward.  There is hope yet for an
Internet Bill or Rights...  Let freedom ring!

Vint, please do yourself and Google a favor and get with
the program old buddy!

See:
After protests from several sources, major German news site
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html
Spiegel Online has dropped Google Analytics. 'Google gathers so much
detailed information about its users that one critic says
some state intelligence bureaus look "like child protection services" 
in comparison,' they say. Spiegel Online no longer uses Google 
Analytics.  'We want to ensure that data on our users' browsing patterns 
don't leave our site,' says Wolfgang Büchner, one of Spiegel Online's 
two chief editors." The article covers a wide swath of German concern 
over Google's data-collecting and -handling policies, including a local 
rebellion against Google's Street View survey vehicles that threatens 
to go national.

Regards,

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