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It's not a surprise, it just rides the trendy tide of accusing big corporations of egregious privacy violations.

Obviously Google has been doing this for years. But it's a slow news day and we need a sexy headline, so let's go with a recent favorite: "<insert BigCo here> is violating your privacy! What are you gonna do about it?! Get angry!"

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That may be true, however, we may understand that google has been doing this since day one but many people have no idea about this kind of stuff. Not everyone understands the Internet and how everything works... to some people I'd imagine this could be quite shocking.

But I do agree that this is definitely part of a trend and this could have been reported on at any time over the last couple years.

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