Re: Moving to Google Groups

[Andrew Kershaw]

Given the recent row between Google and the Justice Department and 
all the news about how search engines track our activities online, it 
is really wise to use Google (or Yahoo! or MSN or...) Groups for 
this?  I noticed as I was signing up that " Creating a Google Account 
activates Personalized Search, which finds the search results most 
relevant to you based on your search history and more. "  That's 
pretty disturbing to me.  I know I can turn it off, but somehow I 
doubt that checkbox actually disables this "feature" of Google.

Google can track me by IP, and I can't do anything about that.  But 
voluntarily giving Google more info (like my email address, my 
proclivity for talking about Macs, etc) sounds like a bad idea. 
Right now, somebody has to go figure that out by adding up 
information from various websites.  Using Google puts it all right 
there in Google's database.

Is anybody else concerned about this, or am I just paranoid?

-
Drew
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