Google Watch is a website launched in 2002.The website's goals are to report on invasion of privacy issues. Critiques of Google Among Google Watch's criticisms of Google are that it collects personal data on its users and does too little to protect that data. Google Watch documents concerns about privacy risks arising from Google's use of long-lived HTTP cookies. Google Watch continues to raise Google-related privacy issues, particularly its use of cookies which have a life span of more than 32 years and incorporate a unique ID that enables creation of a user data log. It has also made allegations about connections between Google and the NSA and the CIA. however Google's defenders assert that Google Watch offers very little evidence to back up its allegations.<ref name=sptimes/> Related topics * Google and privacy issues * Googlezon
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