Google and it’s encroachment into privacy violations resulting from its various services.
Google has excelled themselves in Internet search and online advertising. In the January 1996, Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. After making the relevant search and web pages and on making completing testing they successfully registered Google.com. Google was first incorporated as privately held company on September 7, 1998. Over the period of time, the company was able to develop new products and expand its business from initial searching and advertising business to other areas. These included electronic mails, online mapping, video sharing, blogging and much more.
Do you its simplicity in design and usability, Google was able to attract the attention of almost all the internet users. Recently users have been objecting to Google’s encroachment into privacy violations resulting from its various services. The attractive features like RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Google Reader with “share function”, share button, etc., have raised various questions on Google’s intrusion on privacy. The various sharing features have enabled everyone on the G-talk/ mail to read the stories, information that you want to share with your group of friends. People are of the view that Google Reader fails to realize the distinction between information that is shared, published or public information, assertively promoted details and much more. These factors have raised serious criticism over Google automatically sharing data through blog reading application.
With this the debate over privacy became more prominent. The critics and users were able to make out that Google search engine maintained a record of searches made them for a time frame of 18 to 24 months. Even if the user wanted to delete any personal searches made by them they were not able do so. This happened because Google’s servers were easily able to retrieve the deleted information.
Google has the record of all the personal information about exiting user profiles on Orkut. At times, it also had the record of information about deleted accounts and certain selected information removed by the user. This shook the trust of many Google users.
Thirdly, its failure to provide users access to log in information created through the their interface with Google Reader, Google Video, Google Talk, Google Maps and other services provided by Google led to the criticism by people. When Google recently started sending and automatically adding email ids of contacts to which you have sent e-mails. As the result, the personal information of an individual is shared by all, irrespective of the factor that with whom you want to share the important documents.
Last but not the least; people are not willing on “Content extraction”. Google keeps a detailed eye on the non subscriber’s profile that are sending e-mails or making communication on their services. This hinders the interest of all.
In short, Google and it’s encroachment into privacy violations resulting from its various services has cautioned the users and given them warning to be more alert. They should transfer the files and information with caution, so that they don’t have to repent in the near future.
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