If Google cares about about user privacy, why do they prefix every search result link with their own URL? Clearly the HTTP referrer header isn't enough for them. They want to capture even more tracking data (even from the tiny minority of users with referrer header switched off). Forget trying to copy and paste a URL from their search page.
Given how lax they've been over deleting wi-fi data (promising to delete data and then failing to do so), it's hard to take their offical statements on privacy seriously.
Their reach over online browsing behaviour is simply pehenomenal - greater than any other online company and yet their privacy policy is as vague as it possibly could be.
This, for example, is from their Google Analytics privacy statement
"Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. Additionally, using a method known as IP masking, website owners that use Google Analytics have the option to tell Google Analytics to only use a portion of the IP address, rather than the entire IP address, for geolocation."
Notable by omission is what Google do with the anlaytics data themselves, they presumably capture (and save) the full IP address as well as all the tracking data from the site using Google Analytics.
Given how lax they've been over deleting wi-fi data (promising to delete data and then failing to do so), it's hard to take their offical statements on privacy seriously.
Their reach over online browsing behaviour is simply pehenomenal - greater than any other online company and yet their privacy policy is as vague as it possibly could be.
This, for example, is from their Google Analytics privacy statement
"Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers. Additionally, using a method known as IP masking, website owners that use Google Analytics have the option to tell Google Analytics to only use a portion of the IP address, rather than the entire IP address, for geolocation."
Notable by omission is what Google do with the anlaytics data themselves, they presumably capture (and save) the full IP address as well as all the tracking data from the site using Google Analytics.
http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview...