Google STEALS Your Private Data, Gets Slap on the Wrist

29 04 2012

From the Sydney Morning Herald

GOOGLE’S harvesting of emails, passwords and other sensitive personal information through its worldwide Street View project was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about, according to the full text of a regulatory report. . .  (more)

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-aware-of-data-scoop-20120429-1xsxx.html

. . .  they got a big fat $25,000 fine – F.C.
 

RELATED:    Privacy-respecting search engine SCROOGLE shut down after report – they were hacked to death with denial of service attacks by LulzSec idiots.

Sad. Maybe create a junk e-mail account to use for GOOGLE-owned Blogger and YouTube accounts. They steal your stuff and spy on you. – F.C.

 
 




R.I.P., Scroogle

27 02 2012

Our favorite search engine, Scroogle, has been forced off the web.

We are sad to see it go. It has an anti-tracking policy.

Details – here