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Google Is Watching You (Business Week)

“But when you type in a Web search, your words are stored by Google and other search providers, along with information tying those words to your personal computer.

If you surf the Web, the pages you visit and what you do on them are tracked with "cookies," tiny text files that download to your computer so they can report back to their ad network owners.

Many Web companies say the privacy concerns are, in many respects, overblown.

After all, the information collected online is tied to a number representing a particular computer [ IP (Internet Protocol) number, my note], not to a person's name or Social Security number.”


Frequently Asked Questions & How-Tos
(Grande Communications)

“For a given IP, you can find the owner [or his computer' Internet service provider (ISP), my note] by using the whois tool located at http://www.geektools.com/whois.php

See also What Is My IP? .

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