![]() ![]() Google compiles individual search logs, containing information about users' fears and expectations, interests and passions, and ripe with information that is financial, medical, sexual, political, in short - personal in nature. Billions of search queries stream across Google's servers each month, the aggregate thoughtstream of humankind, online. Google is an informational gatekeeper harboring previously unimaginable riches of personal data. Yet increasingly, it is feared by privacy advocates who view it as a private sector big brother posing perhaps the biggest privacy problem of all times. It is adored for its ingenuity, simple, modest-looking interface and superb services offered at no (evident) cost. Search engines are the most important phenomenon on the Internet today and Google is the gold standard of search. ![]()
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