Alain Weber calls for a boycott of Google

The French lawyer Alain Weber, a member of League of Human Rights' commission for freedom and information technology (LDH), denounces the American search engine Google's acquisition of the internet advertising group DoubleClick. "Thus Google can access [the personal data] of 1.1billion people in the world. Thus Google will accompany (or stalk ?) internet explorers throughout their navigation on the net. But what is more intimate than a stroll, a quest, than our choices, our fields of interest ? What do we owe and how are we indebted to a commercial company who thinks it is entitled to collect, stock and exploit these intimate treasures ? ... Internet users need to stop trusting Google and boycott Google if this project to take over DoubleClick takes off. Otherwise our civil liberties, our secrets, our anonymity and our freedom of choice will be flouted and we will become mere flies in the face of Google, a giant spider reigning over its Web."

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