THE Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that people should not download Google Desktop because it “greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy”.
A spokesEFF said that if the toolbar chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature stores copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers.
The EFF is concerned that it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government, which has already shown an interest in what Google keeps on his server.
On the EFF’s site here,
a spokesperson said that it was shocking that Google expects its users to now trust it with the contents of their personal computers.
Google is getting quite fishy recently, and therefore the word of advice is to stay away from toolbar and the desktop search engine.
All you need to know is how to efficiently arrange files and folders; it may be difficult habit to start with but is probably much better than depending on any search engine to do it for you.
BTW: linux is catching up its act when it comes to “user-friendliness”; take ubuntu for example. Not all but some techies or so called linux guru’s do want linux to stay “un-friendly” so that they can elevate their importance.
thats what stupid little people who have no idea how google say (not saying you are :p)
anyhow,
google-adsense: dumb people think it collects data and invades privacy
gmail-adsense: dumb people think it collects data and invades privacy
g-desktop search: dumb people think it collects data and invades privacy
Hmm so some one forgot to read the very first post of this thread.
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the new "Search Across Computers" feature stores copies of the user's Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on
Google's own servers.
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if this feature is turned on; you can put this in the category of invasion of privacy as personal data is made more vulnerable to exploitation.
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if this feature is turned on;** you can put this in the category of invasion of privacy as personal data is made more vulnerable to exploitation.