Friday, February 10, 2006

Google Warning


Don’t use Google toolbar

EFF warning

By Nick Farrell: Friday 10 February 2006, 13:58


THE Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that people should not download Google Desktop because it "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy".

A spokesEFF said that if the toolbar chooses to use it, the new "Search Across Computers" feature stores copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers.

The EFF is concerned that it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government, which has already shown an interest in what Google keeps on his server.

On the EFF’s site here, a spokesperson said that it was shocking that Google expects its users to now trust it with the contents of their personal computers. ยต

Especially since they are now censoring their users for the Chinese and other authoritarian governments.

See:

Monopoly Capitalism in Cyberspace


Google Censorship China


Google Stock Crash


Google Redux


Blogging No Big Deal, au contraire



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