Googley Woogeley

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:25, William Park wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:55:37AM -0400, Lloyd D Budd wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 03:06, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> > > I don't know why they tried to single out Google. The use of cookies is 
> > > common to a large number of the web sites on the net. Any time you access a 
> > > web site, your IP address is recorded if the site has logging enabled.
> > For privacy sensitive individuals having search terms associated to them
> > is undesirable. Google could "unassociate" this info.
> > 
> > > Somebody else will probably be able to go through the points in more detail 
> > > before I can. As its 3am at the moment, I need to go to bed to get some sleep.
> > 
> > http://www.google-watch.org/ describes all the possible concerns with
> > Google that I am aware of. Possibly the most interesting is the site's
> > concerns is Google does not make its position on privacy clear, and they
> > have made questionable implementation decisions related to privacy.
> 
> Why do they have to?  When you cross over on port 80, you are entering
> someone else's property (ie. computers, cpu, harddisks) and using
> someone else's service (ie. bandwidth, programmer's payrolls).  What
> Google do with the infos is totally Google's discretion.

No one is saying they have to, but possibly it is the right thing to do
-- as in morally correct ;-)

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