Frans=0AI was beginning to guess the same, maybe I should go back to Firefo
x=0AGraham=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0A From: Frans Veldman
<frans@privatepilots.nl>=0ATo: europa-list@matronics.com =0ASent: Sunday, 8
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Europa-List message posted by: Frans Veldman <frans@privatepilots.nl>=0A=0A
On 04/08/2012 12:42 PM, GRAHAM SINGLETON wrote:=0A> Troy=0A> I do use googl
e chrome but I'm interested to know your reasons for not=0A> trusting googl
e? =0A=0AThere are plenty reasons why not to trust google. Most of them hav
e to=0Ado with privacy.=0A=0AGoogle records your search words, may have you
r email (if you use=0Agmail), may have your agenda (if you use their calend
ar), has made=0Apictures of the front side your house (and has recorded you
r wifi data=0Awhile they where at it just because it was easy to do so), is
currently=0Amaking similar pictures from the rear of your house by airplan
e, etc.=0AYes, go ahead and use their browser too so they have even more in
sight=0Ain your interests and what you are doing. (Why do you think they ma
de=0Athat browser. Charity because they thought you couldn't live with the
=0Aexisting browsers?) George Orwell couldn't have imagined what is going
=0Aon right now.=0A=0ANot everyone is aware that google's search engine is
adapting search=0Aresults to your personal profile they have established fr
om your data.=0AJust do this experiment: call a friend, and both google on
the same=0Asearch words and see what is being presented to you. Also compar
e the=0Ainternet advertisement you see on random internet pages, and see ho
w=0Athis gets adapted after entering search words on the google search engi
ne.=0A=0AYou have nothing to hide you may think? Think again. Even if googl
e is=0Anot misusing the data they collect from you, this data might fall in
to=0Awrong hands. Anyone who can steal this data can see that Mr. Singleton
=0Ais interested in airplanes (and thus might have some money), can see on
=0Athe calendar when he is having an appointment and thus not at home, and
=0Acan see on google's street view pictures what the options are to break
=0Ainto his house. All services integrated in one profile! Even worse=0Asce
nario's are thinkable, including fabricating evidence of some crime=0Ato so
me innocent person whose profile and agenda make him an acceptable=0Asuspec
t.=0A=0AAs a former data security expert, I'm quite concerned about google
and=0Atheir appetite for collecting data and building personal profiles.=0A
I have abandoned all google services, and even instructed our family's=0Afi
rewall to deny all access to google. (Surprising to see how many=0Aapplicat
ions have stealth access to google).=0A=0AYou have been warned!=0A=0AFrans
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