The irony is too thick, really. Google, the "don't be evil" company, is trying to eat just about everybody's lunch these days and getting great press for doing so, while building a data bank that's
starting to smell oddly like the Big Brother we've all been trained to fear. This year, the company has expanded into book publishing, video, Wi-Fi, and telecom, adding ever more to the extraordinary
database of information it gathers and keeps from all of us. One privacy advocate suggests that Google could soon become the poster child for a movement regulating data collection. Now the search
company is entering the lobbying business on Capitol Hill in order to stem the flow of possible data collection regulations heading its way. Once cute, cuddly, and un-evil, Google is now the worst
enemy of many media and technology firms, and a privacy nightmare beyond belief for many conspiracy theorists.
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