Google is at once a powerful search engine and a growing e-mail provider. It runs a blogging service, makes software to speed Web traffic and has ambitions to become a digital library. And it is developing a payments service.
Although many Internet users eagerly await each new technology from Google Inc., its rapid expansion is also prompting concerns that the company may know too much: what you read, where you surf and travel, whom you write.
"This is a lot of personal information in a single basket," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "Google is becoming one of the largest privacy risks on the Internet."
Not that Hoofnagle is suggesting that Google has strayed from its mantra of making money "without doing evil."
Rather, some privacy advocates worry about the potential: The data's very existence — conveniently all under a single digital roof — makes Google a prime target for abuse by overzealous law enforcers and criminals alike.
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well currently Im not worried I trust google with what ever they have on me. I use google for searching gmail for mail images for images all that fun stuff. Google doesnt worry me yet.
yeah if they release an operating system id give it a go
likely it would be fast clean and intuitive
Greg
Nice choice of words yet I fear and embrace google it just may be the next Microsoft.....Originally Posted by black_magiic
[B]I've been useing google for a long time now. If there spying on me i Dont know the benifit that they would get from it. Any Spam i get i went to a website and maybe gave my e-mail addy. I,m not
sure what there looking for ,by Spying . Any way::: U guys/gay/ Got a Better searth eng. FREE
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