Google Is Watching, Perhaps Soon In Your Home

It seems that Google has been stepping on some anti-privacy toes recently. Google researchers propose gathering personal data by tracking people's activities at home through home network interactions:

Undeterred by the persistent worries of privacy advocates and government officials that it knows too much, Google hungers for more data. To augment the information the company collects from its users online -- the links they click, the searches they make, and related metrics --Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s researchers are looking beyond the Internet.

A recent paper co-authored by Google researcher Bill N. Schilit, and computer scientists Jeonghwa Yang (Georgia Tech) and David W. McDonald (University of Washington) proposes "home activity recognition," or tracking people's activities at home through home network interactions.

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See also how:

So Googlers are driving their cars around the UK at the moment snapping pictures of every bit of every road and everyone and everything around them - and causing a bit of a privacy hoopla.

Read here - 'Driving some value into Google's Street View'

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