September 8th, 2009

EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

By Richard Koman, ZDNet

Privacy concerns are at the heart of a new objection to the Google Books settlement filed by the ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic and private attorney David Pankin. With EFF’s Cindy Cohen taking the lead, the group objects to the settlement because of the chilling effect on reading, research and writing Google’s control over user data could have.

Related Issues: Privacy

Related Cases: Author's Guild v. Google

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