EFF attacks Google Desktop Search
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has a great article about one potentially nasty aspect of
Google’s newest desktop search software–it caches copies of your file on Google’s server, where it could potentially
be subject to theft, subpoena, and any number of other privacy assaults. With all the recent talk about regulating VoIP
for wiretapping, the Google issue is prescient. We know Google is getting further into VoIP; we know their unique value
proposition for IP telephony apps will be search. Need I
say more?
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Google’s newest desktop search software–it caches copies of your file on Google’s server, where it could potentially
be subject to theft, subpoena, and any number of other privacy assaults. With all the recent talk about regulating VoIP
for wiretapping, the Google issue is prescient. We know Google is getting further into VoIP; we know their unique value
proposition for IP telephony apps will be search. Need I
say more?