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Why Google Watch Targets Google
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posted by scubacuda
on Thursday July 24, @09:57AM
from the monopoly->creating-and-perpetuating-popularity dept.
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According to Google Watch's Why We Target Google, Google was nominated for the Big Brother 2003 award not because they are "evil," but because Google is at a "fork in the road," with some "big decisions to make." This Google Watch site is trying to articulate and publicize the situation at Google, and encourage more scrutiny of their operations. By doing this, we hope to play a small part in maintaining the web as an information tool that is more useful for the masses, than it is for the elites. That's why we nominated Google for a Big Brother award in 2003. The nine points we raised in connection with this nomination necessarily focused on privacy issues. By the time the 2004 nominations are open, we hope that this list will be shorter rather than longer. The nine points they refer to are: 1) immortal cookie, 2) recording everything, 3) retaining data indefinitely, 4) not saying why they need the data, 5) hiring spooks, 6) spyware toolbar 7) illegal cache copying, 8) No detailed, published standards, nor a appeal process for penalized sites, 9) privacy time bomb. (Those interested in other google holes should check out this Slate article)
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