Google balances privacy, reach By Elinor Mills, CNET News.com, July 14, 2005.
Google has lots and lots of information about users of Google’s search engine and other products (Gmail, Desktop Search, Web Accelerator). And Google keeps it for a long long time. Privacy advocates, this story notes, say that “…you realize Google can have a lot of personal
information about individuals’ Internet habits–e-mail, saving search
history, images, personal information from (social network site) Orkut–it
represents a significant threat to privacy.”
And more:
Kevin Bankston, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said
Google is amassing data that could create some of the most detailed
individual profiles ever devised.
“Your search history shows your associations, beliefs, perhaps your medical
problems. The things you Google for define you,” Bankston said.
This article goes into the details, what Google promises about privacy and what it does not, and more…
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