Google: Largest Privacy Risk on the Internet?
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Google's Growth Prompts Privacy Concerns
Google's Growth Prompts Privacy Concerns
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AP have an interesting story with much quoting from some jobbie at the EFF on Google & Privacy Concerns
AP have an interesting story with much quoting from some jobbie at the EFF on Google & Privacy Concerns
"This is a lot of personal information in a single basket," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Google is becoming one of the largest privacy risks on the Internet."
As Danny Sullivan is fond of pointing out though, it's not just Google, Yahoo! collect at least as much data, and thus, as far as the argument in the story is concerned, pose just as much risk...
- Y! MyWeb
You can expect the critics
You can expect the critics silenced again for a while after Thursday:
http://investor.google.com/webcast
As usual, Danny has smart things to say
And I wish people would start directing their concerns more towards the run-away American government rather than corporations. People talk about Google / Yahoo turning over user data... well, duh, who is the entity most likely to DEMAND it? We need tighter privacy laws not so much to limit the aggregation of data by corporations, IMHO, but rather to limit attorneys' and government officials' access to this information.