Self-protection blog from Google

Recently Privacy International ranked the privacy practices of the entire major web Companies. Of the 23 companies, Google was ranked at the bottom of the list. A week after this, Google launched a new blog where it will regularly address matters of Internet privacy and other public policy issues, including copyright and trademark protection, on-line safety for children, content regulation, and patent reform.

Adam Kovacevich, who is the public policy spokesperson of Google, mentioned that they hope this blog will become a resource for policy makers.

Since last April, Google’s team of policy lobbyists has been blogging within the company and these internal posts are now available to the web. Google also allows comments buy the users on the ISP blog, trying to make them a part of this discussion. Almost 12 lobbyists all around the world are posting some information regularly on these blogs and the new posts is expected to arrive in a week’s time.

Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of public policy and government affairs mentioned that they are seeking to do civic rule encouragement in a Googley way. Google is an international corporation that argues for its position in front of the officials and other opinion leaders. In short, Google wants its users to be a part of their effort with their opinions which will in turn help them to improve.

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