Biting the hand

I wouldn't want you to think that this blog has a wee touch of paranoia about Google (or Microsoft for that matter). Let's just call it acute concern, shall we say? After all, with CCTV round every street corner & the threat of UK ID cards never quite receding, well, we're becoming used to a certain lack of privacy. But I'm not so sure that I want Google, benevolent organisation as it may be, lurking on my hard drive, observing my every move / search / purchase & selling this information on to anyone with the necessary cash.Paranoia? Read the article in today's Guardian G2 supplement by Andrew Brown. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1859629,00.html
They know all about you. Purty scary, part two.

And, turn the page, and we've got Tom Vanderbilt on Dubya's James Bond fantasy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1859632,00.html Except that it's not fantasy. Is this Bush's secret bunker? Oh that the Smoking Gunmen should have lived to see this. And perhaps they did...

Source: The Guardian