Who's watching Google as it Googles the rest of us?

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 18, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

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's 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 ...

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