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Not being evil remains a challenge

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

So a non-profit group called Privacy International — one of the groups behind the Big Brother Awards — has released a report that puts Google at the very bottom of the pack when it comes to protecting the privacy of its users, and Google blogger Matt Cutts is pretty pissed ... Continue reading »

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  • I also found it a little surprising that Google was singled out as "the worst." Surely the others are no angels, either. More interesting in general is the recognition of the rising risks of using SaaS in inappropriate ways.

    It's not that free (read: ad-supported) SaaS is universally bad, only that one should be mindful of what content one releases to which services and under what terms. Some things maybe do belong on an encrypted thumb-drive on your keychain and nowhere else (health records?) Or on your laptop's hard drive (that brilliant business plan you've been working on for months.) Landscape photos you took on your trip to the Grand Canyon? Flickr/Yahoo! can have 'em, right?

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