grintoul: Watching Britain's Got The Pop Factor and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice... new Peter Kay spoof :)Status from Twitter | More Profiles ยป 

DoubleClick deal

Public-interest groups in the US are to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the recently-announced Google acquisition of Internet ad network DoubleClick. In addition to its current data on (amongst other things) users’ searches, e-mail and Google ads, the search giant would also have access to DoubleClick’s vast repository of information on 80-85% of Web surfers. The privacy implications are staggering.

From CNET News, here, via BOL, here.


Further reading


These posts may be related to the one above:
  1. Viacom sues YouTube
  2. Google Universe
  3. Property of Google

Leave a reply


XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Click to insert: :mrgreen: - Mr Green emoticon :-| - Neutral emoticon :twisted: - Twisted emoticon 8-O - Shock emoticon :-) - Smile emoticon :-? - ??? emoticon 8-) - Cool emoticon :evil: - Evil emoticon :-D - Grin emoticon :oops: - Oops emoticon :-P - Razz emoticon :roll: - Roll emoticon ;-) - Wink emoticon :cry: - Cry emoticon :-o - Eek emoticon :lol: - Lol emoticon :-x - Mad emoticon :-( - Sad emoticon