Has the time finally come to stop using Google?
Engines, Personal, Life, News, Rights and Wrongs, Security, Internet, Blogging, Technology, Privacy August 17th, 2006
Maybe it has, if you care about your privacy. There’s no doubt that Google does care about your privacy, and aims to protect it. Earlier this year, for example, it refused to release anonymous search data demanded by the US government for a study, even though other search engines meekly handed it over. But rather than protecting such data, you might well think Google shouldn’t collect it in the first place.
The question has risen to prominence over the past week, after a New York Times reporter phoned "Thelma Arnold, a 62-year-old widow who lives in Lilburn, Georgia" and revealed that he knew altogether too much about her.
Read the rest on the Guardian.co.uk
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I completely agree with you Carol. I just had a conversation with my professor and business mentor yesterday about a client turning down use of a google feature in his project, and that was his reason. Google is getting too big and recording everything.. How can you trust someone like that?
What i don’t understand is,why do they have to keep the data?Why?And why would we trust them.Just because they haven’t done a mistake yet,doesn’t mean they won’t do it.