connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 14:47:24 +0200
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff () iconia com>
Subject: connecting The Dots with Google's New Gmail service
To: Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber <dave () farber net>

...Google records the numerical Internet addresses of the computers that
request each of the Web searches the company performs. But it hasn't had
names or other identifying information to link those addresses to specific
people and learn who, for example, is searching for "Janet Jackson halftime
show."

...Once users register for Gmail, Google would be able to make that
connection, if it chose to, said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World
Privacy Forum in San Diego. And if Google ever compared the two sets of
data, she said, "there are some people who would be chilled and
embarrassed."

...Page wouldn't say whether Google planned to link Gmail users to their Web
search queries.

..."It might be really useful for us to know that information" to make
search results better, he said. "I'd hate to rule anything like that out."

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Google's E-Mail Strategy Criticized
New Gmail service scans messages and attaches targeted ads to them,
raising privacy fears.

By Chris Gaither, LA Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google2apr02,1,6221287.story

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