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• September 14, 2007, Strasbourg, France: Google called on the United Nations to help protect the privacy of web surfers worldwide, "partly by law and partly be self-regulation," before the internet faces a "crisis of confidence."

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  1. Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, introduced the proposal at UNESCO's conference on [http: //portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24772&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Ethics and Human Rights in International Society].
  2. Google's proposal is modeled on the [http: //www.apecsec.org.sg/apec/news___media/fact_sheets/apec_privacy_framework.html Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework].
  3. The nine principles guiding the APEC Framework include: preventing harm, integrity of personal information, notice, security safeguards, collection limitations, access and correction, uses of personal information, accountability and choice.

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