Ensure that Earthlink adopts a data retention schedule that routinely erases non-essential data.Such procedures would include notice to the individual before personal information is released to others. Ensure that Earthlink / Google agrees to fair procedures for addressing legal requests for personal information.Ensure that both companies do not share personal information without first obtaining voluntary, affirmative consent from the user.
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Ensure that individuals can use the free service without "signing in.". In this letter, we urge you to negotiate terms with Earthlink / Google in order to establish reasonable privacy rights for users of this network. In addition, the Earthlink / Google proposal seeks to create a surveillance infrastructure for San Francisco by allowing greater deployment of video cameras and automated enforcement tools, such as parking meters. Earthlink also partners with online profiling company Doubleclick. Google follows an opt-out model for disclosing individuals' information to third parties.Įarthlink discloses subscribers' personal information for marketing purposes, and engages in "enhancement," the purchasing of additional personal information on individuals without their knowledge or consent. They have to provide an email address to sign in, thus allowing Google to track individuals uniquely across sessions of Internet use. Users have no ability to opt out of this targeting. Google proposes to subsidize public Internet access by serving targeted advertisements to users. 
The selection of Earthlink / Google as a provider for municipal broadband access in San Francisco raises privacy issues.
Re: TechConnect RFP 2005-19 Earthlink / Google and Privacy Department of Telecommunications and Information Services
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