says World Privacy Forum executive director Pam Dixon about Google's latest feature making search histories of individual users available, according to this Wired article.
I agree completely. If Google made this snooping operation part of the standard package, as it has done with the downloading of files without the user's consent or knowledge earlier, I would stop using their service completely.
At least they had the good sense to require users to request this massive violation of privacy. Therefore, while I will take most of my searching business elsewhere as a consequence of this, I might still consider falling back on Google occasionally if I can't avoid it.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at April 21, 2005 11:34 PM