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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by joesb on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:12AM (#2122740)
Distortion. That's not Google spying on people. The guy use Orkut, a social network website, surely there's his account information there.

The personal data that is handed over is email address of the account. It's probably a privacy violation if it's really that hard to find out someone's email address once you know his social network account, but it's not spying on people.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by mahmud on Thursday January 20, 2011 @04:28AM (#2123161)
Google OWNS Orkut, in fact, it says so on the 2nd line:

Google's Orkut social networking site

Here is the same story on TechCrunch showing how Google provided more than just an email address:

The owner of the email id Rahul Vaid was traced, using information supplied by Google, to Chakarpur in Gurgaon city of Haryana.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/18/hit-pause-on-the-evil-butto...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard... by joesb on Thursday January 20, 2011 @03:33PM (#2125153)
Yes, Google own Orkut.

That makes it even less sensible to call Google "spying" on people when one signup for Google's social network.

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