Posted on 10/22/2010 3:47:11 PM PDT by dynachrome
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Google Inc said its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed, and that it was changing its privacy practices.
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"It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords," Google Vice President of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google's blog on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
All your data belong to us.
Once is an accident. Twice is intentional.
accidentally if course....SURE ya right!
It seems that every other week Google makes an announcement that they have ‘accidentally’ collected a new set of personal data. I wouldn’t be too surprised if in 2012 they announce “We have accidentally used, sold, and shared people’s personal data with the government.”
If you use wi-fi, make sure you are secure.
I flipped on off while in front of a clients house they skipped her house i went back and looked
Google Inc said its "Street View" cars around the world accidentally collected more personal data than previously disclosed,..."
"...in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords," Google Vice President of Engineering and Research Alan Eustace said in a post on Google's blog on Friday.
Um, yeah, accidents happen...
direct link to their searcher (scroogle = “screw google”)
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
You can bet that if google can do this, the government WILL do it too. I mean, we live in an age where a person gets arrested for what they post on a church bulletin board!
Bing.com has too many pop ups.
You'd get better results typing random letters in the address bar. Bing blows.
If Google is picking this up, so can criminal eavesdroppers. If you are not secure on WiFi you are risking having anything you transmit picked up and used to take your identity and/or your money.
you can’t accidentally collect data in the electronics world. You have to tell electronics to do something or else it won’t do it
I think all of them are getting less and less useful. I have to search way too hard for what seem to be simple things, and the first page results are virtually identical between google and bing. I think the engines are being used politically to get green and leftist related pages up front whenever possible.
Can’t prove it, just seems that way to me.
google is evil. They avoid paying taxes, they spy on americans, they advocate and fund propaganda that support higher taxes on everyone but themselves, they censor speech they don’t like
Google should be kneecapped.
And I hear they are not paying their “Fair share” of taxes either.
Hmmmmm. Do good, eh?
I guess it depends on the meaning of the word “good.”
So right! You think they only picked up info from unsecured wifi connections?
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