Friday, December 21, 2012

Last month Google reported that the US government requested personal information from roughly 8,000 individual users during just the first few months of 2012.


Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too - Jason Lee/Reuters (image source)

The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall.

Without much fanfare, Google announced news this week of a new advertising project, Conversions API, that will let businesses build all-encompassing user profiles based off of not just what users search for on the Web, but what they purchase outside of the home.