Thursday, December 6, 2007

Ve haf vays of making you search
(The Sidney Morning Herald, Australia)


"Google is massively invading privacy," the study [made by Boffins Hermann Maurer, chairman of Graz University's Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media] said, with the company able to access knowledge about individuals and companies, but not bound by national data protection laws.

"Google's open aim is to know everything there is to know on Earth," the researchers concluded. "It cannot be tolerated that a private company has that much power: it can extort, control, and dominate the world at will."

A Google spokesman said in a statement: "These allegations are premised on numerous inaccuracies, conspiracy theories and fundamental misunderstandings about Google's products and services. They're completely without foundation and, frankly, a little strange.''

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