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Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup
An anonymous reader sends in an interesting story from Mocality, a company that painstakingly built a business directory in Kenya. When they discovered that somebody was systematically harvesting the contact information they'd collected (and after a few very odd phone calls from confused Kenyan business owners), they set up a sting to see what was really going on. They swapped out the phone numbers listed for a few businesses with phone numbers in their own call centers, and then waited to see who called. Mocality was shocked to discover it was Google Kenya, who falsely claimed a business collaboration with Mocality, and then lied about Mocality's business practices.
Google is friendly to Linux and open source kind, so they get a free pass through life, as they're incapable of evil.
It's also okay because other corporations, namely Microsoft, also pull dick moves, this line of reasoning is only valid when it is not used to show that companies other than Microsoft do the things Microsoft does, because they are evil, while Google, not being Microsoft, is therefore a saint.
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