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Google Knows Everything You’ve Ever Done, Ever

The Google logo is seen at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. on September 2, 2011.    AFP PHOTO/KIMIHIRO HOSHINO (Photo credit should read KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images)

Google has too damn much information, warns Frida Ghitis in a column about Google's recent announcement about its consolidation of user data. Google knows your interests, needs, desires; it knows who you talk to using Google Voice and for how long; that time you planned on your calendar to do that thing has been deleted but not forgotten; Google knows what you look like thanks to Picasa; it has your entire contact list; and it even has a record of those frantic searches about that gross hot tub rash you got at that party your ex brought you to.

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