From EPIC.org:
On February 18, 2010, EPIC President Marc Rotenberg will appear in federal court in New York to represent readers’ privacy and right to read anonymously. EPIC will urge Judge Chin to reject Google’s deal with publishers, which requires readers to provide sensitive personal information to view digital books offered by Google, but fails to protect their privacy. EPIC previously moved to intervene in the case, observing that readers’ interests are not represented, and warning that the settlement “threatens well-established standards that safeguard intellectual freedom,” “imperils longstanding Constitutional rights,” and “threatens to eviscerate state library privacy laws that safeguard library patrons in the United States.” For more, see EPIC: Google Books and Privacy, EPIC: Google Books Litigation, and EPIC: Google Books: Policy Without Privacy.