amended Google Book settlement

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Peter H Salus <peter () pedant com>
> Date: November 18, 2009 9:01:06 AM EST
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] amended Google Book settlement

> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:19:31 -0500, Dave Farber wrote
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Pam Samuelson <pam () ischool berkeley edu>
> > > Date: November 17, 2009 5:09:26 PM EST
> > > To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> > > Subject: amended Google Book settlement
> >
> > > may placate the governments of France, Germany, and the U.S.
> > > Department of Justice, but still is deeply troubling, as I explain
> > > in my latest Huffington Post:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-samuelson/new-
> google-book-settlemen_b_358544.html
> > >
>
> While I agree with Pam, it seems to me that the various governments  
> (and
> the general public) has missed one vital point:  Google's invasion  
> of our
> lives.  Google has refused (to, inter alia, Bruce Schneier and Cory  
> Doctorow)
> to refuse access to its database without a subpoena.  Google will  
> hold a
> record of everything accessed, when it was accessed, the IP number  
> whence
> it was accessed, the geographical location, etc.  Do you want nearly  
> unfettered
> access to the fact that you began reading "Jurgen" in Topeka,  
> continued in
> Seattle, and completed it in Osaka? -- Or, more seriously, that you  
> were in
> those cities at those times on those dates?  Do you "trust" Google?   
> I don't.
>
> Peter
>
>
> "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
> plausible and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
>
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