Well, I guess my computer-porn watching days on CHROME are over!!
And I thought Bill Gates was watching! He's merely my Big Brother.
These guys
are too much.
K.
On Sep 10, 2008, at 11:03 AM, ed wrote:
Hi All,
This is ed..
As most of you know, my son-in-law is a master programmer for the
Navy ship building operation here. He sent over a warning of a new
product that is being offered on the market and I wanted to pass the
information on to all of our LAMP Sponsors and Members.
This is concerning the new Google Chrome browser that is being
offered. They received a directive that NO government computers
would be allowed to install this new browser, and made strong
suggestions for their employees NOT to put it on their home
computers as well… Here is the bottom part of the directive.
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Please read the following for more information on the concerns of
Google Chrome.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031661-56.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Text copy from preceding link:
The auto-suggest feature of Google's new Chrome browser does more
than just help
users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of
information on what
people are doing on the Internet besides searching.
Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have
Google as
their default search provider, Google will have access to any
keystrokes that are
typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.
What's more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that
data even after it
provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET
News that the
company plans to store about 2 percent of that data--and plans to
store it along with
the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.
In theory, that means that if one were to type the address of a
site--even if they decide
not to hit enter--they could leave incriminating evidence on
Google's servers.
That said, individuals have a clear way to use Chrome and avoid
having this occur. Turning
off the auto-suggest feature means that Google will neither get nor
store this information.
One can also select a search provider other than Google as their
default to avoid having
their search queries stored by Google. (Update 11:45 a.m. PDT:
Switching to Chrome's
Incognito mode also switches off the auto-suggest features, the
Google representative said.)
Beyond the individual level, though, there is the question of what
Google will be able to do
with all this information in aggregate. Folks already concerned
about how much data Google
has from its Web search history may well have another reason to
worry. That is in addition
to separate concerns raised by the product's End User License
Agreement (EULA).
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