A U.C. Berkeley report shows that most Internet users don’t understand web site privacy policies, and that major online businesses like Google Inc. freely gather data and share it with affiliated businesses via loopholes in those policies.
Using trackers called “web bugs,” third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others.
Read more at http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/01/daily22.html
Read the whole report at http://www.knowprivacy.org/
