[120181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Google Privacy (was Re: news from Google)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Dec 11 15:51:50 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:51:53 -0800
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard Bennett wrote:
> Microsoft just wants your cash, but Google wants your personal
> information so they can sell it over and over again. The entire Google
> business model is at odds with notions of personal privacy, so it's not
> even a question of the occasional excess on their part. Schmidt did what
> Michael Kinsey calls a gaffe: when a politician accidentally tells the
> truth.
>
Completely agree. I have always tried to tell people as much with
Google, and they'd just point to the privacy policy, but now there's a
juicy quote from the top of the food chain to counter with. Policy can
(and will) change.
~Seth
