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Posted by Dave Girouard, Vice President
& General Manager, Google Enterprise
We launched Google Apps so
that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share
information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with
enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than
1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.
Larger enterprises, however, face a challenge: though they want to
deliver simple, useful hosted applications to their employees,
they're also required to support complex business rules,
information security mandates, and an array of legal and corporate
compliance issues. In effect, many businesses use legacy systems
not because they are the best for their users, but because they are
able to support complex business rules. This isn't a tradeoff
that any business should have to make.
We realized that we needed a more complete way to address these
information security and compliance issues in order to better
support the enterprise community. That's why we're excited
to share the news that we've agreed to acquire
offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM,
and other web-based communications. Like Google Apps, Postini's
services are entirely hosted, eliminating the need to install any
hardware or software. A leader in its field, Postini serves more
than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users, and was one of our
first partners for Google Apps. Their email and IM management
services include inbound and outbound policy management, spam and
virus protection, content filtering, message archiving, encryption,
and more. We will continue to support Postini's customers and
we look forward to the possibilities ahead.
Here's the
press release announcing the deal, and there's more detail
in our
and on the
Enterprise blog.
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Posted by Dave Girouard, Vice President
& General Manager, Google Enterprise
As of today, Postini
becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, and we couldn’t be
happier about it. (Here's the
FAQ.) Since July 9, when we announced the
agreement to acquire Postini, plenty of businesses have told us
how much they respect Postini and how the acquisition makes sense
for customers of both companies.
We view this as welcome news, but also a sign of things to come.
With the more than 100,000 businesses on
and more than 10 million users of Postini products, we see great
potential on both sides. We're committed to continue to deliver
the type of innovative and useful business products our customers
have come to expect. And we plan to announce even more product
offerings in the very near future.
Separately, both companies shared a vision for what the world of
hosted applications can become for businesses of all sizes.
Together, we look forward to achieving it.
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Posted by Dave Girouard, General
Manager, Enterprise
We all get better with practice. And while our
business more than doubled last year, we're always looking
for ways to improve. So we're happy to
welcome BearingPoint, one of the largest IT and management
consulting firms on the planet, as a partner. They're putting
Google search into practice — a new
Practice group, that is. With more than 100 people already
trained on Google technology, we're confident BearingPoint will
demonstrate that practice makes perfect sense for business.
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Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate
General Counsel
Google is deeply committed to providing a healthy and trusted
online environment for all of our users, and especially children.
While the Internet provides an amazing opportunity for people to
connect with useful information, some online material poses serious
risks to children and families, and some online behavior violates
the law and should be eradicated. Child pornography, in particular,
is a horrific and vicious crime. Today, I
before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations about Google’s efforts to keep kids safe online.
Among the initiatives that I highlighted:
- Google has a zero-tolerance policy on child pornography. We
prohibit any advertising related to child pornography. When we
become aware of child pornography anywhere in our search engine or
on our site, we immediately remove and report it to the appropriate
authorities.
- We work closely with law enforcement to help track down child
predators, and respond to hundreds of child safety-related requests
per year.
- We help families stay safe online with tools like
which enables users to filter adult content from search results. We
also promote online safety through our support of the
campaign.
These are just the beginning. We believe that much can be done to
combat child exploitation online, and are committed to doing our
part to protect the Internet as a safe place for all.
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Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate
General Counsel
Google is committed to protecting your privacy and to supporting an
Internet environment that also respects individual privacy. Today,
we're joining a group of notable U.S. companies
for federal consumer privacy legislation.
Here in the U.S., we have a growing patchwork quilt of state
privacy laws, disparate industry-specific privacy laws (for
example, different laws covering health-related data, financial
data and children's online data), and a similarly-mixed bag of
data security laws. This matrix of laws is complex, incomplete, and
sometimes contradictory. For consumers, the result is a set of
privacy protections that are uneven at best.
On an Internet beset with spyware, malware, phishing,
identity-theft, and other privacy threats, enforcement of privacy
protections has become an industry-wide challenge, and highlights
the lack of a coherent regulatory structure. Google strongly
supports the adoption of a federal consumer privacy law. It would
be good for our users, and would contribute to consumer trust on
the Internet as a platform for communication, expression,
e-commerce, and so forth. Americans care about their privacy, and
so does Google. A baseline U.S. federal consumer privacy law will
help protect all of us online.
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Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate
General Counsel
Google will not have to hand over any user's search queries to
the government. That's what a federal judge ruled today when he
decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the
Department of Justice. (You can read the entire ruling
and the government's original subpoena
The government's original request demanded billions of URLs and
two month's worth of users' search queries. Google resisted
the subpoena, prompting the judge's order today. In addition to
excluding search queries from the subpoena, Judge James Ware also
required the government to limit its demand for URLs to 50,000. We
will fully comply with the judge's order.
This is a clear victory for our users and for our company, and
Judge Ware's decision regarding search queries is especially
important. While privacy was not the most significant legal issue
in this case (because the government wasn't asking for
personally identifiable information), privacy was perhaps the most
significant to our users. As we noted in our briefing to the court,
we believe that if the government was permitted to require Google
to hand over search queries, that could have undermined confidence
that our users have in our ability to keep their information
private. Because we resisted the subpoena, the Department of
Justice will not receive any search queries and only a small
fraction of the URLs it originally requested.
We will always be subject to government subpoenas, but the fact
that the judge sent a clear message about privacy is reassuring.
What his ruling means is that neither the government nor anyone
else has carte blanche when demanding data from Internet companies.
When a party resists an overbroad subpoena, our legal process can
be an effective check on such demands and be a protector of our
users.
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Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate
General Counsel
In August, Google was served with a subpoena from the U. S.
Department of Justice demanding disclosure of two full months’
worth of search queries that Google received from its users, as
well as all the URLs in
Google’s index. We objected to the subpoena, which started a set of
legal procedures that puts the issue before the Federal courts.
Below is the introduction to our response to the Department of
Justice's motion to the court to force us to comply with the
subpoena. You can find the entire response
here. (This is a 25-page PDF file.)
I. INTRODUCTION
Google users trust that when they enter a search query into a
Google search box, not only will they receive back the most
relevant results, but that Google will keep private whatever
information users communicate absent a compelling reason. The
Government's demand for disclosure of untold millions of search
queries submitted by Google users and for production of a million
Web page addresses or "URLs" randomly selected from
Google's proprietary index would undermine that trust,
unnecessarily burden Google, and do nothing to further the
Government's case in the underlying action.
Fortunately, the Court has multiple, independent bases to reject
the Government's Motion. First, the Government's
presentation falls woefully short of demonstrating that the
requested information will lead to admissible evidence. This burden
is unquestionably the Government's. Rather than meet it, the
Government concedes that Google's search queries and URLs are
not evidence to be used at trial at all. Instead, the Government
says, the data will be "useful" to its purported expert
in developing some theory to support the Government's notion
that a law banning materials that are harmful to minors on the
Internet will be more effective than a technology filter in
eliminating it.
Google is, of course, concerned about the availability of materials
harmful to minors on the Internet, but that shared concern does not
render the Government's request acceptable or relevant. In
truth, the data demanded tells the Government absolutely nothing
about either filters or the effectiveness of laws. Nor will the
data tell the Government whether a given search would return any
particular URL. Nor will the URL returned, by its name alone, tell
the Government whether that URL was a site that contained material
harmful to minors.
But, the Government's request would tell the world much about
Google's trade secrets and proprietary systems. This is the
second independent ground
upon which the Court should reject the subpoena. Google avidly
protects every aspect of its search technology from disclosure,
even including the total number of searches conducted on any given
day. Moreover, to know whether a given search would return any
given URL in Google's database, a complete knowledge of how
Google's search engine operates is required, inevitably further
entangling Google in the underlying litigation. No assurances, no
promises, and no confidentiality order, can protect Google's
trade secrets from scrutiny and disclosure during the course of
discovery and trial.
Finally, the
Government's subpoena imposes an undue burden on Google without
a sufficiently countervailing justification. Perhaps the Government
can be forgiven its glib rejection of this point because it is
unfamiliar with Google's system architecture. If the Government
had that familiarity, it would know that its request will take over
a week of engineer time to complete. But the burden is not
mechanical alone; it includes legal risks as well. A real question
exists as to whether the Government must follow the mandatory
procedures of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in seeking
Google users' search queries. The privacy of Google users
matters, and Google has promised to disclose information to the
Government only as required by law. Google should not bear the
burden of guessing what the law requires in regard to disclosure of
search queries to the Government, or the risk of guessing
wrong.
For all of these reasons, the Court must reject the
Government's Motion.
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Posted by David Drummond, General
Counsel and Vice President, Corporate Development
We've been asked recently why we're so determined to pursue
Google Print, even though it has drawn industry opposition in the
form of two lawsuits, the most recent coming today from several
members of the
American Association of Publishers. The answer is that this
program, which will make millions of books easier for everyone in
the world to find, is crucial to our company's mission.
We're dedicated to helping the world find information, and
there's too much information in books that cannot yet be found
online. We think you should be able to search through every word of
every book ever written, and come away with a list of relevant
books to buy or find at your local library. We aim to make that
happen, but to do so we'll need to build and maintain an index
containing all this information.
It's no surprise that this idea makes some publishers nervous,
even though they can easily remove their books from the program at
any time. The history of technology is replete with advances that
first met wide opposition, later found wide acceptance, and finally
were widely regarded as having been inevitable all along. In 1982,
for instance, the president of the Motion Picture Association of
America famously told a Congressional panel that "the VCR is
to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston
Strangler is to the woman home alone." But Sony, makers of the
original Betamax, stood its ground, the Supreme Court ruled that
copying a TV show to watch it later was
legal, and today videotapes and DVDs produce the lion's
share of the film industry's revenue.
We expect Google Print will follow a similar storyline. We believe
that our product is legal (see
Eric Schmidt's recent op-ed), that the courts will
vindicate this position, and that the industry will come to embrace
Google Print's considerable benefits. Even today, despite its
lawsuit, the AAP itself recognizes this potential. The Google Print
Library Program, AAP president Pat Schroeder said this morning,
"could help many authors get more exposure and maybe even sell
more books.” We look forward to the day that the program's
opponents marvel at the fact that they actually tried to stop an
innovation that, by making books as easy to find as web pages,
brought their works to the attention of a vast new global audience.
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Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate
General Counsel
We updated our
today. We know privacy is important to our users, and it's
important to us, too. That's why we work hard to let people
know how we collect and use personal information to provide our
services. A clearly written privacy policy is part of this effort.
In this update, most of the terms are the same, but there are two
important differences:
First, we created a short, one-page "
notice summarizing our privacy practices. We hope this is easy to
digest and understand at a glance. Second, we provided even more
detail about our privacy practices in the
policy and lots more detail in the accompanying
both is to help you make informed choices about using our
services.
Designing privacy protection and user choice into Google products
is an ongoing effort. Please
let us know how we're doing.
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