Infamous cookie set loose in world’s biggest information merger
You heard of that long-lived Google cookie to expire January 17, 2038. And you
probably know Google shares it amongst all of its services. (Did you know this is only
possible because wherever you are, it’s something dot google dot com?) This means
when you log-in to Gmail, someone at Google knows what you were web-searching
for. When you log-in to Blogger.com, Google tracks what you are publishing. Log-in
to Orkut, and Google knows who your friends are, what you like, where you live and
how old you are. Let’s face it: now that Google merged all your faithfully submitted
data, they know more about you than your own mother. Time’s ripe for old-fashioned
blackmailing or something infinitely more clever... after all, these are Google engineers
we’re talking about.
