The data collectors of Mountain View
“Anonymity online – a thing of the past.” It is common for users to be traced on the numerous websites they visit. The privacy officials based in Berlin and Schleswig Holstein, Alexander Dix and Thilo Weichert, criticized an especially controversial form of electronic surveillance. As usual it refers to the search engine Google, which has often been targeted for its questionable relationship regarding user data.
This is how the article titled “Die Spurensammler” (“The Trackers”), published in today’s “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, begins. A truly interesting article pinpointing the problematic situation with Google. I recommend everyone to read it.
YouTube data to Viacom, Google Analytics as a “privacy troubling service,” as Schleswig-Holstein’s state privacy officer, Thilo Weichert, called it. I wonder what issues Google will have to face next? Probably decreasing numbers of Google-Analytics users… privacy advocates are beginning to criticize the Analytics service…
