Google + DoubleClick = Big Brother?

Fans of George Orwell may remember the "telescreen", a device ostensibly created to provide entertainment and to disseminate information is used to track the activities of every person in a society. Activists are proclaiming that the recently-announced purchase of DoubleClick (the company that runs the majority of banner ads on the internet) and Google may be forming a conglomerate just as sinister as anything George Orwell could have thought up.

Just think. If a company knew about all of your searches (Google Search), all of your e-mails (GMail), and every advertising-supported website you ever visited, what would they NOT know about you? (And this ignores the possibility of a Google-powered or tracked VOIP service to track your phone calls.)