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NEW YORK (AP) -- Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.
Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also prompting concerns that the company may know too much: what you read, where you surf and travel, whom you write.
"This is a lot of personal information in a single basket," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Google is becoming one of the largest privacy risks on the Internet."
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Of course this kind of news item could be sponsored by a competitor.
What do you think about this?
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Re: privacy risk?
Sat, August 13, 2005 - 12:27 PMGoogle will know a lot. But to gather all the worlds information will take an estimate of 300 years to do and keep up with. Google will not be releasing any of your private information to anyone and google is very secure and not easy to hack.
