[ga] Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Although there are a few here that could care less about
others privacy, which IMHO is far less than reasonably
considerate.  There is a growing trend to put a stop to
unsolicited intrusions such as, but not limited to Tracking
Cookies which Google is famous for.

Vint, let be very blunt here.  I and our members are getting
very irritiated by this nonsense, especially sense Google nearly
a year ago stated that they were going to cease doing this sort
of foolishness.  So now I suppose that because it is doubleclick,
owned by Google, that will be the equivication excuse for being
less than honest in Googles earlier pledge?  Bait and switch eh?
Well Google has yet again just been exposed....

See:

News coming out of the letters the House Energy and
Commerce Committee sent to a number of broadband and Internet companies
about their policies and practices on user tracking. The committee has
now made public 25 responses to its queries, and many companies,
including Google,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/11/AR2008081102270_pf.html

acknowledge using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly
informing customers. The Committee is considering legislation to require

explicitly informing the consumer of the type of information being
gathered
and any intent to use it for a different purpose, and a right to say
"no" to
the collection or use. The submitter notes that, while Google denies
using
deep packet inspection, if the traffic is a Google search or email to or

from a Gmail account, Google does not need DPI to see the contents of
the message. "The revelations came in response to a bipartisan inquiry
of how
more Internet companies have gathered data on customers. Edward J.
Markey (D-Mass.) said 'Increasingly, there are no limits technologically

as to what a company can do in terms of collecting information... and
then selling it as a commodity to other providers.' Some companies like
NebuAd have tested deep-packet inspection with some broadband
providers Knology and Cable One. Google said that it had begun to
use the DoubleClick ad-serving cookie that allow the tracking of Web
surfing across different sites but said it was not using deep packet
inspection. Google promotes the fact that its merger with DoubleClick
provides advertisers 'insight into the number of people who have seen
an ad campaign,' as well as 'how many users visited their sites after
seeing an ad.' Microsoft and Yahoo acknowledge the use of behavioral
targeting. Yahoo says it allows users to turn off targeted advertising
on
its Web sites; Microsoft has not yet responded to the committee."

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