SecurityRatty: Telling Google and others to do less evil

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Telling Google and others to do less evil

2008-04-15 00:00:00 by Scott Bradner in Network World on Security

Google, Yahoo and other search engine companies are in the data gathering business. The fact that they offer you and me the service of locating things on the Internet is a means to an end, and that end is data about what you and I do online. They are like the folks that hoard string - the more string they gather the better they feel even if there is little or no actual use for most of what they gather.