> Google itself issued a statement saying the Wall Street Journal "mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide feature

> Google itself issued a statement saying the Wall Street Journal "mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It's important to stress that these advertising cookies do not collect personal information." Just asking: Isn't it a kind of a subtle lie to say that advertising cookies do not collect personal information? Of course, there isn't a personal information in the cookie itself, but that cookie is used to identify my profile in those third party databases, so they know who I am, and that profile already can contain anything they collected about me in the past, including personal information. UPDATE: This article seems to confirm that the Google's spokesman statement is indeed misleading -> http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6701 http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6701