otech - 8:42 am on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Of course they know your email address, we all use Adsense or Adwords around here dont we?

Of course they can tie the personal details we give them from Urchin, Gmail, Adsense, Adwords, Sitemaps, Personalised Search, The Google Toolbar etc just by looking at the cookie.

Of course they can identify us - its not paranoid its fact - in fact in the recent news article mentioned in the Google News forum from Money UK they even admitted as much.

They can identify users down to the PC - and any other PC we use to sign in.

And usually different users of a PC have different logons - this means different cookies for each user - ie Personally identifying.

Question is, you might trust Google with this data, but do you think they can fight off all the governments in the world who want that data forever?

Dont know about your countries, but here in Australia the government continues to add new laws removing even the needs for warrants etc for suspision of Homeland Security - UK/USA already did the same sort of things from what I remember - if you cant beat it, change it!

Its far from paranoid, its FACT.