Google didn’t help catch Breivik and that means we need less internet privacy? | End the Lie - Independent News
http://endthelie.com/2011/07/27/google-didn%e2%80%99t-help-catch-breivik-and-that-means-we-need-less-internet-privacy/#axzz1TfAbdouo
We all know that Google engages in massive invasions of privacy on a daily basis through their tracking of every search along with their ability to track a single user to almost every site they visit.
What do we have to show for it? Simply put: nothing.
Anders Breivik, the confessed killer behind the Oslo and Utoya attacks, allegedly spent a whopping 200 hours on Google searching bomb related terms like the painfully obvious “how to make a bomb.” How does one of the world’s largest corporations and unarguably the most powerful search engine company on earth manage to miss this?
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Furthermore, Google Analytics coupled with the Google AdWords/AdSense advertising program makes for a tracking system that can follow an individual around most of the web.
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How would you feel knowing that every mouse movement you have made on many websites could be stored and saved for later use?
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Breivik’s name had appeared on a Norwegian watchlist after his purchase of chemicals from a Polish seller.
Knowing this and how Google happily turns over data to the US government 94% of the time even though the American government files twice the demands of any other nation, why wouldn’t the Norwegian government just bang out a quick request to get more data on Breivik?
