Not surprisingly, privacy watchdogs have sharpened their attacks on its retention of potentially sensitive information about the 650 million people who use its search engine and other Internet services, like YouTube, Maps and Gmail.
To protect its interests, Google, on its part, has hired lobbyists and ramped up its public relations staff.
Image: An office worker checks out the map of Indian on Google's satellite image service | Photograph: Laurent Fievet/AFP/Getty Images
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