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Is Google Invading Your Privacy?

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:56 pm
by JPlush76
Thought this was an interesting article to share

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,904805,00.asp

Every year, Chris Hoofnagle organizes the US Big Brother Awards under the auspices of a public interest group called Privacy International. "These are awards we give out to government institutions and businesses who've done the most to invade our privacy," says Hoofnagle, who also serves as deputy counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), another public-interest group concerned with maintaining civil rights on the Internet.

The awards won't be announced until March, but Hoofnagle recently received a nomination that he found particularly worthy of investigation. Representatives of a Web site called Google Watch sent him an e-mail complaining about privacy infringements by none other than the Web's most popular search engine. Basically, the e-mail accused Google of disseminating spyware. Google, the message said, was using its Toolbar application to collect reams of information about the surfing habits of the world's PC users.

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:05 pm
by phice
That's an option you're asked if you would like to participate in when you actually download the toolbar. I was aware of such a thing when I installed my toolbar, that's why I unchecked it.