theories

AOL has made a few missteps in the past few months, with its ill-advised posting of millions of search queries to the Internet discovered on the eve of the biggest search engine conference of the year; one reader has suggested issues like these are not only self-inflicted, but intentionally so.

Neven Vision has been absorbed into the secretive bowels of the Googleplex, and Neven's background in biometrics used by the government and law enforcement has prompted whispers of possible implications of the acquisition.

A section of text in a Google PowerPoint presentation described the concept of storing 100 percent of a user's data; what started as a one-off observation made by a blogger rocketed all the way to a lengthy mention in the Wall Street Journal.