Tim Berners Lee warns against third-party internet snooping Quote:
In its simplest form, a single website, such as the online retailer Amazon, will keep a record of which pages a user has visited and show them relevant advertisements the next time they visit.
But privacy concerns arise when records of web activity are shared or sold to other commerical third parties, particularly if they involve a popular search engine such as Google, which stores millions of users' searches.
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I know I wasn't happy a year or so ago when Google suddenly started including Usenet postings in the standard search results (prior to that, you had to deliberately look in a specific news group).