You have probably seen that Google-watch wants us to nominate Google for the Big Brother Awards. Google-watch is one of the most paranoid sites I’ve ever seen. (Others find them odd as well.) They have a true hangup on privacy in a way that makes me feel that these guys never use the same phone twice, never buys their paper in the same shop and never ever travel together in the same viecle. The stuff they worry about is stuff that any webmaster records if he wants to keep track of what is going on.

Here is their list of reasons why Google should be named Big Brother of the year. My comments are in italics. Before you read it (or re-read it because you have probably seen it before) you might want to open the Baloney Detection Kit in a new window.

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