For the past two years, each company has experimented with different ways to divine more and more about how people live their lives on the Internet, without sparking a revolt.
But the plans the rivals announced on Tuesday, which critics say could dramatically rev up their respective abilities to gather intelligence on individual Internet users, seem to have struck a chord. An informal and unscientific survey of Web users by USA TODAY found a majority speaking out against the new business practices announced by Google and Facebook.
"It's dangerous for two companies to have so much personal data, regardless of whether the specific threats of that data consolidation are immediately clear," says Sarah Downey, a privacy analyst at software maker Abine.
Consumers in the middle of Google-Facebook battle – USATODAY.com
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