Thursday, May 31, 2007

Google being compared to Big Brother

Google is now being compared to Big Brother !!! Check this article

European Data Privacy Officials Worry About Big Brother Google

Some of the information maintained by Google is quite interesting and if it falls in the wrong hands, can be used for malicious purposes. Search history is quite a useful feature and you opt whether you want to enable it or not but I wonder whether Google tracks it anyway. The tracking is cookie based, so what will happen if cookies are disabled ?

All these concerns crop up due to lack of visibility to the inner working of Google, which they have no intention of making public. And why should they ?

Quoting Alex Bakst in the article, success prompts distrust.




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