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Google's Privacy Principles
January 27, 2010
Thursday, January 28th marks
International Data Privacy Day
. We're recognizing this day by publicly publishing our guiding
Privacy Principles
.
Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services.
Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices.
Make the collection of personal information transparent.
Give users meaningful choices to protect their privacy.
Be a responsible steward of the information we hold.
We've always operated with these principles in mind. Now, we're just putting them in writing so you have a better understanding of how we think about these issues from a product perspective. Like our
design
and
software
guidelines, these privacy principles are designed to guide the decisions we make when we create new technologies. They are one of the key reasons our engineers have worked on new privacy-enhancing initiatives and features like the
Google Dashboard
, the
Ads Preferences Manager
and the
Data Liberation Front
. And there is more in store for 2010.
You can find out more about our efforts at the
Google Privacy Center
and on our
YouTube channel
.
Posted by Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research
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