[privacy] Google Wants Still More Personal Data on its Users

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via HSToday.us.

[snip]

Google wants to maximize the personal information it is capable of
capturing – and storing indefinately - on its users. The company even
envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they
might spend their days off.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data
is key for Google’s expansion and believes it is the logical extension of
the company’s stated mission to organise the world’s information.

But privacy rights advocates are concerned that the personal information
Google is capturing and storing can also be used to compile a detailed
portrait of a person’s behavior.

Indeed. HSToday.us first reported that Google reputedly has been working
with the US Intelligence Community – with whom it has long enjoyed a
close relationship and which helped the then fledging company get off the
ground – to provide it with search engine user data which, in conjunction
with other datamining efforts, is used to identify suspected terrorists.

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More:
http://www.hstoday.us/Intelligence/National/20070522_Google_Wants_Still_Mor
e_Personal_Data_on_its_Users.cfm

- - ferg

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