[NetBehaviour] DATA MINING YOU TO DEATH

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Tue Nov 4 12:12:02 CET 2008


DATA MINING YOU TO DEATH

Does Google Know Too Much?

By Julia Bonstein, Marcel Rosenbach and Hilmar Schmundt.

Google gathers so much detailed information about its users that one
critic says some state intelligence bureaus look "like child protection
services" in comparison. A few German government bodies have mounted a
resistance.

The little town of Molfsee, near Kiel in northern Germany, has three
lakes, an idyllic open-air museum and a population just under 5,000.
It's not the likeliest place to declare war against a global power. Yet
Molfsee has won the first round of a battle against a powerful digital
age opponent.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html



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