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By Paul Biba

images.jpegGoogle has released the full text of its Google Books Privacy Policy. I haven’t had a chance to analyze it yet and hope to have some comments for you at a later date. It’s too long to reprint here, but you can find it at Google Books.

In addition there is some explication of the policy at the Google Book Blog. In that blog Google says:

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 website here.

 
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