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Another discussion of the problems with Google's new policy, from a somewhat different perspective:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/02/google_privacy_policy_the_missing_opt_out_isn_t_the_only_problem_.html More google privacy issues:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_19990444"Google deliberately worked around something in Safari to make ads work in the way it wanted them to work, regardless of whether the user wanted that or not."
And finally, I checked
the wiki pages on google again. Surprise surprise There is still no mention of the 2012 privacy controversies.
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