--On Monday, June 11, 2007 9:02 -0600 Michael M Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_hi_te/google_privacy "The company says its stockpiles data to help its search engine better understand its users so it can deliver more relevant results and advertisements." This is EXACTLY what is fundamentally wrong with Google. It is wonderful to see them state it so cluelessly. Why would anyone object that a company compiles a dossier of as much of each person's online activity is possible? After all it makes the ads more relevant. In another forum I proposed that the difference between saying "Gmail handles our undergrad email" and "we do not provide email accounts to undergrads" is that in the former case we provide commercially value to Google by identifying which Gmail users are our students. Is there any other substantive difference? Many of our students use Gmail now, on their own. I might be kidding myself to think that Google has not identified them as our students anyway based on their email content. Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
