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While Google Books has always been covered by the general Privacy
Policy for all of Google's services, we understand that the privacy of
reading records is especially important to readers and libraries. We
know that users want to understand how Google's privacy practices apply
to Books today, and what will happen after the settlement. To provide
all users with a clear understanding of our practices, and in response
to helpful comments about needing to be clearer about the Books product
from the FTC and others, we wanted to highlight key provisions of the
main Google Privacy Policy in the context of the Google Books service,
as well as to describe privacy practices specific to the Google Books
service. We've also described some privacy practices for services
created by our proposed settlement agreement, which is currently
awaiting court approval.
As we noted in our letter to the FTC, because the settlement agreement has not yet been approved by the court, and the services authorized by the agreement have not been built or even designed yet, it's not possible to draft a final privacy policy that covers details of the settlement's anticipated services and features. Our privacy policies are usually based on detailed review of a final product -- and on weeks, months or years of careful work engineering the product itself to protect privacy. In this case, we've planned in advance for the protections that will later be built, and we've described some of those in the Google Books policy. We have also covered several privacy issues in our letter to the FTC on Google Books. You can read more of that exchange on the FTC's
As we noted in our letter to the FTC, because the settlement agreement has not yet been approved by the court, and the services authorized by the agreement have not been built or even designed yet, it's not possible to draft a final privacy policy that covers details of the settlement's anticipated services and features. Our privacy policies are usually based on detailed review of a final product -- and on weeks, months or years of careful work engineering the product itself to protect privacy. In this case, we've planned in advance for the protections that will later be built, and we've described some of those in the Google Books policy. We have also covered several privacy issues in our letter to the FTC on Google Books. You can read more of that exchange on the FTC's
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