EFF: Breaking News
I remember when Microsoft was considered the barefoot, cool place to work. Everything wsa laid back and casual. Somewhere along the line MS became a behemoth, and it seems that the people don't like behemoths. After squashing everyone's darling Netscape with uncanny business practices, MS has slipped into behemothdom, the quintessential BIG business, and nobody seems to like them.
Google has somehow managed to come on the scene and get enormous without suffering this fate... yet. Perhaps some of this ability is due to MS's presence and everyone hoping that someone else will rise to challenge the monster. But... there are murmerings, such as this one of privacy invasion concerns on the part of Google. In reality though, so far Google has kept it's nose clean with respect to protecting the vast information stores it controls globally.
EFF: Breaking News: "Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop
San Francisco - Google today announced a new 'feature' of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new 'Search Across Computers' feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password."
Google has somehow managed to come on the scene and get enormous without suffering this fate... yet. Perhaps some of this ability is due to MS's presence and everyone hoping that someone else will rise to challenge the monster. But... there are murmerings, such as this one of privacy invasion concerns on the part of Google. In reality though, so far Google has kept it's nose clean with respect to protecting the vast information stores it controls globally.
EFF: Breaking News: "Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop
San Francisco - Google today announced a new 'feature' of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new 'Search Across Computers' feature will store copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google's own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user's computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password."
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