Most of my point is that there is little difference between what google is doing and what the government is doing.
In part because google can hand over the contents of the DB, which includes information including your IP address. Wiretapping and traffic capturing aside, a company that keeps everything, including trend analysis and that will hand it over to the government should they ask, warrant or not, is just as dangerous as the government taking the data them selves. I don't like the way Google does it, so I don't use gmail for anything real. I use it for a test account, but I also have a yahoo and hotmail account for stuff like that. But they are test accounts, I don't use them for real communication. I don't mind my name being public in forums like this or anything else because I stand behind what I say. I don't do things illegal, and I don't think the government is out to get me, just my money. I'm scared of companies that would want to do this, and companies like google that look like they are better than the rest scare me more, because they can get away with it longer. Users are less likely to question Google because they trust them. > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:28 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: google is scary > > I understand where you are coming from, but if you are really that > conserned about privacy of data, you may want to rethink using the > internet at all. Google's gathering of information is not new, isn't > unique on the internet, and is far from the most worrysome data > privacy issue out there. At least they are being up front with the > data they collect. > > -Cameron > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
