This rant on what Google knows about you is so stupid I hesitate to even link it. Let’s look at it line by line:
Let’s see, you mean to tell me that if I put info in a form and press submit that the server will receive that information? You don’t say? I demand they stop snooping through my search terms and providing me with hits!
Yeah, that info is in the HTTP request header (or can be determined from the same) that is sent whenever your browser is used to visit any site in the world. The site has to know where you’re from so it can send results (that you asked for) to your browser. Scarry stuff, huh? If you have a static IP, that’s gets logged, too. That’s how the internet works. Anyone with even the slightest knowledge of networking or TCP/IP knows this.
Google owns Blogger. I own wheatdesign.com. If you surf my site, Apache will log your IP. If you search Blogger sites hosted on blogspot, the blogspot servers will log your IP. Nothing to see here, kids.
If you have an Adsense account, then you have entered into a business agreement with Google that lets them do what’s specified in that agreement. Your bank knows the same sorts of things about you, as does any business you deal with. Why the paranoia? It would be hard to do business with my bank if I refused to give them my phone number and mailing address. Same thing here.
* Who you send emails to
* Who sends emails to you
* The contents of those emails
This is the dumbest section of a dumb list. Any mailserver has to know the email addresses of people you send mail to, otherwise it could not deliver the mail. The same goes for incomming mail. Unencrypted email, kids, is plain text, sent through the net and capable of being read with the right tools.
I can’t go on. It’s just too stupid. I hate it when people take something that is common knowledge and spin it as if it were part of some grand conspiracy. Read up just a little bit on how networking and web servers function, and you’ll understand how obvious and un-draconian all this is.