Fergie's Tech Blog

Google Wants Still More Personal Data on its Users

Via HSToday.us.

Google wants to maximize the personal information it is capable of capturing – and storing indefinately - on its users. The company even envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data is key for Google’s expansion and believes it is the logical extension of the company’s stated mission to organise the world’s information.

But privacy rights advocates are concerned that the personal information Google is capturing and storing can also be used to compile a detailed portrait of a person’s behavior.

Indeed. HSToday.us first reported that Google reputedly has been working with the US Intelligence Community – with whom it has long enjoyed a close relationship and which helped the then fledging company get off the ground – to provide it with search engine user data which, in conjunction with other datamining efforts, is used to identify suspected terrorists.

posted by Fergie @ 5/22/2007 07:51:00 PM