As promised, I have one more longer post about Google and privacy risks coming soon.
In the meantime, here are some recent related news items about technology and privacy:
- Search Engine Watch on Google cookies
- Cell phone users secretly tracked in study
- German Telekom Accused of Tracking Journalists’ Mobile Phone Signals
- Tracking Pedestrian Movement with Bluetooth Technology New
Excerpt:
New details continue to emerge on the spying scandal that has hit German telecommunication giant Deutsche Telekom. In addition to rifling through telephone records for a year from 2005 to 2006 to determine the extent of contacts between management and journalists, it now looks as though Telekom was also using mobile phone signals to keep track of their locations.
EDIT: I’m mentioning the mobile phone articles because Google is going into mobile devices with their Android platform.
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I’ve added a new link about using Bluetooth to track pedestrian movement. It’s to illustrate that people will track this data if they have the ability — and they won’t necessarily tell you that you are being tracked.
Google is moving into mobile technology with the Android platform.