DATA MINING YOU TO DEATH Does Google Know Too Much?
By Julia Bonstein, Marcel Rosenbach and Hilmar Schmundt. Google gathers so much detailed information about its users that one critic says some state intelligence bureaus look "like child protection services" in comparison. A few German government bodies have mounted a resistance. The little town of Molfsee, near Kiel in northern Germany, has three lakes, an idyllic open-air museum and a population just under 5,000. It's not the likeliest place to declare war against a global power. Yet Molfsee has won the first round of a battle against a powerful digital age opponent. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,587546,00.html _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
