OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/25720/Google_faces_new_EU_US_privacy_probes Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 18:36:04 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com bah http://www.osnews.com/thread?510925 http://www.osnews.com/thread?510925 i can understand going after a company that makes something essential, but google doesn't. google makes some good products, but honestly - not a single one is a necessity. people who don't like their products can stop using them anytime. whether google's practice here is justified or not - well, the government needs to have some consistency in their prosecution - not just go after rich companies. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 04:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zhulien) Comments RE: bah http://www.osnews.com/thread?510940 http://www.osnews.com/thread?510940 "for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users"

I am not saying that money isn't a reason, but what is wrong with going after them for this behavior? Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avgalen) Comments Comment by Soulbender http://www.osnews.com/thread?510947 http://www.osnews.com/thread?510947
But it's important to remember that we didn't anticipate this would happen


No, I am sure you didn't expect to be caught. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: bah http://www.osnews.com/thread?510974 http://www.osnews.com/thread?510974 if apple didn't want it to be bypassed, they wouldn't have coded it to be right? ( after all apple is the bees knees ;) to a lot of people, i mean their products now matter how crappy they are, get sold in the millions to people who trust apple to do the privacy part right ) Sun, 18 Mar 2012 02:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zhulien) Comments RE[3]: bah http://www.osnews.com/thread?511023 http://www.osnews.com/thread?511023 Wow! That argument would work as well as ...

'If they didn't want to be robbed in the middle of the night the should have had a flawless security system, right?' Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kristoph) Comments