I got this email from Jamie Court of the Consumer Watch Dog Group:

Your computer may be having a conversation about you with Google and you don't even know it. That's why we made this video: to show how Google tracks your every key stroke, and to ask the company to stop.

If you believe Google needs to better protect our privacy, please send a free message to the company's board of directors through this link:
www.consumerwatchdog.org/corpo...pact4/
(if the link doesn't work, try highlighting it with your mouse then copy and paste the URL into your web browser)

Last week, we talked to Google's team about making privacy a bigger priority. The team leader said it was just a question of how much "real estate" on the screen Google was willing to devote to privacy. Join us in telling Google how valuable your privacy really is.

Google's role is now unprecedented—the Internet goliath is no longer merely collecting some data about how we search and surf the web. Its new browser and software are actually sending information from inside our computers to its servers.

Recently, Consumer Watchdog wrote the Justice Department to stop Google's planned advertising alliance with Yahoo on the grounds that Google's growing dominance over every aspect of personal computing is a serious threat. Read our letter to Google's founders and to the Justice Department. (The government is reportedly blocking the deal absent major concessions.)

It's time for Google to become a standard bearer for privacy.

Please watch the video and send it to your friends. Google has already agreed to fix a small privacy problem pointed out in the video. But, overall, the company claims its users don't expect much privacy. Now it's time for the users to speak up.

Thanks for all you do,

Jamie Court

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