[kwlug-disc] DailyTech - Concerned About Privacy? You're Probably up to no Good, Says Google CEO

[Bob Jonkman]

Apparently, this part of the data takes up very little room.

I was listening to a podcast[1] in which the speaker, Viktor 
Mayer-Schonberger described the effect Google has on our ability to 
forget.  As an aside, he describes some of Google's infrastructure and 
the estimated size of the database.  I forget the exact size, but it's 
something I could store on a home media centre.

--Bob.

[1]  
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2009/10/22/viktor-mayer-schonberger-presents-delete-the-virtue-of-forgetting-in-the-digital-age-audio/


Andrew Kohlsmith (Mailing List Account) wrote:
> On December 9, 2009 07:33:42 pm Bob Jonkman wrote:
>   
>> Even without Web History, Google still records your IP address, your
>> search history, and correlates it all with its cookies (across different
>> computers, different ad vendors, and possibly the geolocation service
>> that's now built into Firefox.  And this doesn't require a Google login
>> ID either.
>>     
>
> Wow. That's quite the database.
>
> -A.
>
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