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How Google Invades Your Privacy

Mother Jones has a feature article warning internet users about the amount of information Google collects about them.

Internet privacy? Google already knows more about you than the National Security Agency ever will. And don't assume for a minute it can keep a secret. YouTube fans--and everybody else--beware.

....the question is not whether Google will always do the right thing--it hasn't, and it won't. It's whether Google, with its insatiable thirst for your personal data, has become the greatest threat to privacy ever known, a vast informational honey pot that attracts hackers, crackers, online thieves, and--perhaps most worrisome of all--a government intent on finding convenient ways to spy on its own citizenry.

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    by cpinva on Fri Oct 13, 2006 at 08:39:52 AM EST
    oddly enough, i must be the only person on planet earth, with access to a pc and the net, who doesn't use google. how do i survive? lol that aside, while google may be the largest single collector of personal bits, it's hardly alone, nearly every site does this, including this one. while most of the data is insignificant (isp, e-mail address, etc.), it all goes into the maw, waiting to be tapped. the only way to avoid this, is to go live in a cave in the desert, maybe.