Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users. In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."
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Member since:2005-10-02
[OT] Well, let's just say that we are opposite each other then. Capitalism is good. Greed is not necessarily a part of capitalism. Besides that this is a moral question and moral has no place in laws. I think people have the right to what they have earned as long as it wasn't earned through illegal coercion.
It is wrong for other persons to sit down and do nothing and then steal the hard work of other people. Under NO circumstance do I care if lazy people think life is unfair.
Yes yes, and you don't pay for the searches with money. You pay with information. If you don't like it, don't use it. Make your own indexing engine. Go ahead. Store x billion websites on your harddrive - or start paying for searching.
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Member since:2006-12-16
And that would be combated by inserting html code to stop spiders wouldn't it? No money for web search engines, since nothing could be indexed and found! Google is making money off the fact that people don't put anti spider code in the html, because most people don't realise you can do it, or don't know how to do it, or are simply too lazy or non plussed about it all. The only ones doing it would be businesses.
As to lazy, that's very open to definition, isn't it.
Dave
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2006-12-16
[OT] - what's wrong with that? I personally believe that capitalism is bad, because it brings out the worse behaviour in humans - our greed. I do not think that's it's right for 1% of the world population to have 99% of the world wealth. Under ANY circumstances. I don't care if they think they earnt it.
Google uses the information from our searches, and it uses that to make a dollar.
Dave