From eWeek:
Google is all about information.
It’s become the No. 1 tool people use to find information on the Internet. More troubling to privacy experts, though, is the amount of information Google has accumulated about us.
The Mountain View, Calif., company is continually raked over the coals regarding the massive amounts of PII (personally identifiable information) it collects, what it does with it, how long it retains the data and what the company might do with it if its merger with DoubleClick goes ahead.
That’s been ratcheted up to fever pitch during the past few weeks with two new privacy headlines: complaints being voiced about the new Street View service’s photographs getting too close for comfort and Privacy International flunking Google on its privacy policies and procedures in a report published June 9.
On the other hand, Google recently warned the German government that it will shut down the country’s access to Gmail rather than go along with a law, now being debated, that would require e-mail providers and ISPs to store users’ data in such a way that they can be identified.
hmmm.
[tags]Google Privacy, Privacy, Data Retention[/tags]
Check out this huge list of Big Brother’s (aka Google) Streetview privacy invasions:
http://streetviewgallery.corank.com