Understanding Google - the Privacy Dimension

Google is incraesingly being perceived as the company that will follow IBM (1965-85) and Microsoft (1985-2005) in dominating the IT industry. This presentation will outline the many business lines that Google is endeavouring to build, and then focus on one particular challenge that it poses.
Readings:

• What's Google Really Up To? (Uni Hong Kong, Oct 2006)
• Google's Gauntlets in Comp. L. & Security Rep. 22, 3 (May-Jun 2006)
• Google Challenges Corporations, Consumers, the Law (Uni Oslo May 2006)
• Evaluation of Google's Privacy Statement(Dec 2005)
• Google - The Privacy Perspective (Dec 2005)

Biography

Roger Clarke has spent close to 40 years in the IT industry, in Sydney, London, Zürich and Canberra. He is a longstanding consultant in strategic and policy aspects of IT, and a Visiting Professor in eCommerce at the University of Hong Kong, in Cyberspace Law & Policy at UNSW in Sydney, and in Computer Science at the ANU in Canberra. Er hat Gastprofessuren in den Instituten für Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universitäten Bern und Linz absolviert. Im Blickpunkt seiner Forschung liegt momentan auch die Frage, ob er seinen Akzent s'bitserli korrigieren kann