Google is Tracking its Users:

Gmail gives users a choice to keep a given machine signed into their account so that they don’t have to retype their passwords each time when they want to check their mail. But this means if we forget to log off and when we check our mail at a public computer our email may be opened for any bypasser to read.

So Google is tracking its users to increase their privacy protection. Google has a practice of recording the Internet Protocol address of every computer that connects to its service. But now Google is adding one more feature that is monitoring of IP address and other data about users. Users of Gmail will soon have a option to see which computers are logged into their accounts and can read their e-mail


Similarly, if we are an advertiser on Google, where we pay for every click that users make on our ads, we might well be glad Google keeps records of the I.P. addresses of its users. That way we have at least one tool available to help us to detect if our rival is spending his spare hours clicking away on our ads.

Source: Erwin D’Souza, a Gmail engineer