Two secrecy radical are stepping up the pressure on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission , say the agency has an obligation to consider privacy concerns as it train to dominate on the antimonopoly implications of Google ’s proposed acquirement of DoubleClick .

The executive directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) and the Center for Digital Democracy ( CDD ) repeated their call for the FTC to visit privateness conditions if it sanction the uniting . It seem that an FTC determination on the $ 3.1 billion acquisition is “ impendent , ” tell Jeffrey Chester , CDD ’s executive director .

FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in October suggest the FTC ’s follow-up of the deal had to be about competition questions , not privateness , but Chester disagreed during a press group discussion on Tuesday . One of the FTC ’s main duties is to protect consumer concealment , and the unification of the number one search supplier with the figure one ad server call down serious privacy questions , he say .

Google ’s contention that there are no major secrecy concern is “ absurd on the nerve of it , ” Chester said . DoubleClick says it serves 8 billion online advertising and processes 964 gigabytes of World Wide Web server logarithm files each day , he said .

“ It would be a irreverence of trust , in effect abuse of their own role , in not addressing an outcome of such concern as the data point - collection setup within the ever - uprise colossus , ” Chester order . “ If they ’re really the agency to protect consumer privacy , they will work to protect privacy . If they neglect to represent to protect seclusion , they have basically put up a pin to American consumer saying , ‘ We deliver your data . ' ”

Google spokesman Adam Kovacevich repeated Google ’s place that the amalgamation would have positive effect .

“ This acquisition is good for consumers , advertisers and vane website publishing firm , and we bear on to be surefooted that it will be O.K. , ” he said . “ I would also point out what the FTC itself has aver about privateness not playing a role in its review of the deal . ”

Last workweek , the two group asked FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras to recuse herself from the decision on the unification , saying her hubby works for a law business firm that is rede DoubleClick on the flock in the U.S. Majoras declined to recuse herself , saying that her husband is n’t like a shot ask in the DoubleClick deal and that the Jones Day legal philosophy firm is apprise the company only before European regulator .

An FTC spokesman was n’t immediately available for comment .

Chester and EPIC executive managing director Marc Rotenberg repeat their calls for Majoras to recuse herself . Jones Day ’s Web site , until late , enunciate it was notify DoubleClick on the deal in the U.S. as well as Europe , they read .

But the most crucial dance step the FTC can take is to impose privacy condition on the unification , Rotenberg order . The face for a privacy recapitulation “ is very clear , ” he said .

Chester agreed . “ Are they implicated about Americans ’ privateness , or are they proceed to give Google a pass ? ” he said .