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Google behaving badly in the press
i just came across CNET News.com's recent article, "Google balances privacy, reach", which is about the potentially enormous Google privacy issue that i've been following for some time. it's not the best piece of journalism i've ever read, but it's one of the first i've seen coming from a major news organization that raises the issue (another is CNN's "How much does Google know about you?").
interestingly, Google imposed a press ban against CNET for running the piece. this is reason enough for me to recommend that you read it at least once if you use any of Google's services. is this the kind of company you want to entrust your data to? it seems to me that they're acting more like a spoiled celebrity instead of a responsible, publicly owned company.
meanwhile, ZDNet UK puts it in perspective with a wonderful, tongue-in-cheek "open letter" to Google.
~ Christefano, 12 August 2005
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