Google’s “supporting privacy” is just spin – With insights from The Wall Street Journal

Citing privacy concerns, Google says it won’t use technologies that track individuals across multiple websites, says The Wall Street Journal.
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Google's trumpeting that it will stop tracking our private browsing habits to sell us adverts is disingenuous. The small print shows the Silicon Valley giant, which scoops up 52% of all digital advertising globally, will still use data drawn from our Googling, Gmails and YouTube. So this is not the great victory for online privacy which Google and its acolytes are claiming. More realistic is what tech pundit Paul Graham (1.2m Twitter followers) wrote in the tweet republished below. Here's the detail from our partners at The Wall Street Journal. – Alec Hogg

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