Readers of my Blog will be well aware of my previous criticisms of the company’s ambitions to gather all of the world’s knowledge on its servers, and my concerns over its infringement of traditional ideas about privacy.
It is therefore of considerable interest that Google has just launched Dashboard. This is intended to provide users of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Google’
November 5, 2009
Google Dashboard
September 1, 2009
Google books – philanthropy or piracy?
In the Observer on 30th Augsut, William Skidelsky has added a contribution to the debate about Google’s plans to create the world’s biggest online library. As he comments “Google has already scanned 10 million books in its bid to digitise the contents of the world’s major libraries, but a copyright battle now threatens the project, [...]
February 5, 2009
Google and privacy
A BBC report raises concerns about privacy issues associated with Google’s new tracking service, Latitude. This uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user’s location automatically. Although it is an opt-in service, there are fears that not everyone may know that their phone is broadcasting their location.
There is, though, [...]
