[Web4lib] google/privacy/ contacting google?

[Karen Coyle]

The big privacy issue with Google now is their purchase of Doubleclick. 
Doubleclick is THE major internet advertising agency. They are behind a 
high percentage of those banner ads that we all ignore. Because they put 
the banner ad on the web page, they can also set a cookie. This means 
that your web surfing is being gathered into a profile, but Doubleclick 
may not have access to your identity. Google, because they provide email 
and various sites that you log into, does know who you are. Combine the 
two.... and you get what I see as a major privacy invasion. Fortunately, 
the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a suit against the 
merger (http://epic.org/). This is very serious.

kc

Rudy Leon wrote:
> Has anyone ever found a way to send an email to google that humans
> read and respond to?
>
> Google has merged my anonymous blogger blog with my gmail identity and
> I cannot seem to find an email address or webform that successfully
> gets to human eyes.
>
> and my frustration is boiling into an impotent seethe that I would
> love to stave off. Any ideas for reaching the Google folks?
>
> Alternately, has anyone else found that privacy issues and google --
> now that we've fallen in love with gig upon gig of email space -- are
> coming to a non-theoretical point in reality?
>

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