en102
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Re: And Yet
While I'm no fan of Google's data collection and mining - they are at least open about it compared to others in the article.
MS - Has enough money to plow competitors under if they don't play with them (hint Netscape)
Comcast - Anti Net neutrality
AT&T - Will give your data if you flash a badge.
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with their biggest critic (particularly on privacy issues) now being AT&T.
Yeah - AT&T vs. Google on privacy ... I don't particularly like Google's search tools which fetch results on each keystroke, nor do I like their gmail content reading + Ad delivery method on emails. AT&T - they'll just give your info away and claim it was done in the interest of national security, and will not comment on it.
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pnh102
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Mount Airy, MD | I still fail to understand how Google's products/services cause any privacy violations since people have to agree to use them.
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en102
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| I think it may be more of a 'concern' than a violation.
AT&T's may have been more of a violation - clouded by NSA policy. Google's is more of a concern - as unencrypted data (for the most part) is transmitted across the internet for gmail info (storing drafts), and the use of any personal information. While there may not be any violations, it does give one an the impression that Google wants to snoop your generic data and post related ads to it - I am not aware of a legality against this, however, I'm sure that Consumerist would disagree.
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xsiddalx
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said by pnh102  :I still fail to understand how Google's products/services cause any privacy violations since people have to agree to use them. Yeah, most of us read and understand the legal print added to our mortgages, credit cards, health insurance policies, etc... (sarcasm)
Some of us still use google because they were just a search engine funded by public dollars.
We got spoiled.
They suck more and more each year....their goal seems less about search and more about ad delivery and becoming the new television box (they seem to have finally killed off their dejanews purchase - everything diverted to ad crap)
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