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Should you Fear Google?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-more-than-anybody-else dept.

Ponty writes "Google-watch.com is presenting a list of nine complaints about (almost) everybody's favorite search engine. Some of the salient fears are "Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save." and "Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency." The concerns seem like paranoid hand waving to me, but maybe I'm not paranoid enough."

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  1. Re:Should you fear Google? by MrWa · · Score: 3, Troll
    Well, I wanted to mention in the submission that it seems like the authors are pretty darned dumb

    Then why did you submit it? "Crackpot claims Earth is flat" doesn't get submitted - so why should "Crackpot believes Google ate his brain"? We could, of course, submit it twice and people would be more than happy to make funny jokes about dupes - now that would be /. material.