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Questions and concerns over Google's (GOOG) privacy protection have been bandied about since the company first gained its commanding lead in the search-engine wars.

The anxiety intensified with the introduction of Gmail and hit a fever pitch when the Department of Justice demanded a week's worth of search queries - even without a user name attached. And now, with the company's location-aware smartphone on the market, there are some people terrified that Google will somehow turn our user data against us.

Needless to say, the fear is blown completely out of proportion.

On Monday, USA Today printed an article that highlighted the privacy concerns over Google's G1 smartphone and its context-specific ads.

Google's Nonexistent Privacy Problem