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11:34 26th April 2010
Data protection heads across the world have teamed up to express their public concern with search giant Google.
In a letter signed by the privacy commissioner of Canada and the heads of data protection authorities in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom, the privacy pushers underlined their worries about the global rollout of the company's social service, Google Buzz, to all its Gmail users with poor information.
The letter, which urged Google to set up privacy-protective default settings, also identified Google Street View as a potential minefield of individual privacy.
Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said that the letter "reflects growing concern about the privacy impact of Google's business practises, but what happens next is not clear".
He noted that it could be a sign of things to come because "it signals the level of concern that we see".
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