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Google Teaches Online Privacy

by Gilad on August 27th, 2007

As Google keeps on losing the battle against the other engines when it comes to online privacy, they decided to put up a video on YouTube which, while accurate, spin things their way and make them look much better, at least in the eyes of those who don’t know much about it.

PCWORLD wrote about this video:

The video is clear and accurate, but it’s of course meant to make Google look good, so take it with a grain of salt. The engineer giving the presentation downplays what it means to tie searches together with an IP address and (more importantly) a unique ID, but the New York Times made it clear how that alone can be enough to track people down last year when AOL released detailed search records.

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