Dan Gillmor's latest Financial Times column "Google's hubris risks nemesis" offers some criticism.
In Gillmor's view, the privacy issue is Google's biggest problem.
I agree completely with that view. I don't buy the idea that search engines can go ahead on an opt-out model under current copyright law and would oppose calls for introducing some new "search exception" into Article 5 of the 2001 Copyright Directive.
That is only a minor point, however. Just as Gillmor, I think that privacy issues are the biggest problem.
And I agree also with his point that there is no need yet to abandon all hope. Google might change.
They have changed their privacy policy recently, and asking people to let them know how they are doing.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at November 19, 2005 12:51 PM