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This is only on pages with a Google +1 box on my website:

It seems to be firing off an event on every mouse move. Anyone know what it is doing? I searched on Google (perhaps I should try Bing for once on this one!) but no one seems to have written about it. Is it recording information about my visitors browsing habits? Is it some sort of CAPTCHA to detect human like behviour?

Example URL, press F12 in chrome, go to timeline and press record, then move your mouse around this page (it plus ones this question, don't worry):

https://plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/button?hl=en-US&jsh=r%3Bgc%2F22224365-adc8a19e#url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6667544/google-1-recording-mouse-move&size=tall&count=true&id=I1_1310488711647&parent=https://plusone.google.com/u/0/_/+1/button?hl=en-US&jsh=r%3Bgc%2F22224365-adc8a19e#url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6667544/google-1-recording-mouse-move&size=tall&count=true&id=I1_1310488711647

For what it's worth (I can see this is going to be a popular question), I don't think there is anything sinister behind it, it might even be a useless artifact/bug, but if it is doing some sort of tracking, well, it seems a little deceptive to me.

Google +1 privacy policy

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/plusone/