"Well this isn't going to go well for Google. At least I sure hope it doesn't." I sure hope it doesn't go well for Google either. It seems quite brazen, even a

"Well this isn't going to go well for Google. At least I sure hope it doesn't." I sure hope it doesn't go well for Google either. It seems quite brazen, even arrogant, for Google to refuse paying a fine when it arguably tracks and records the behaviour of online users to an unprecedented degree. And Google does not tell users what they do with their data beyond the generic "we collect this information to improve services". What they do with your data and how they use it is different from simply stating what is collected (which is all that their privacy policies actually say). Just to be clear, I don't believe Google does sinister things with the data it collects, but that doesn't mean it's ok for a company to collect informaion about users unfettered. And no other company has such a voracious appetite to track and record users online. The thought of anonymising your data is clearly too much for Google: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/google-keeps-your-data-to-learn-from-good-guys-fight-off-bad-guys/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/google-keeps-your...