[Web4lib] What does Google know about you?

[Karen Coyle]

One of the points of the article is completely mysterious to me. They say:
  "Google's program for scanning library books sometimes requires user 
names to protect copyrights."

Does anyone know what this means?

kc

Sloan, Bernie wrote:

>I thought this was an interesting article about Google and various
>groups' concerns about the security of the personal info Google
>collects.
>
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/233000_googleprivacy18.asp 
>
>Bernie Sloan
>Senior Information Systems Consultant
>Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
>616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
>Champaign, IL  61820-5752
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>E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
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