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Privacy experts fear Google growth

by on04 November 2008

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Privacy experts
are starting to fear that Google will start abusing its power as it dominates the Internet search and advertising market.

Simon Davies, director of London-based Privacy International said that data gathered through most of Google’s services "disappears into a black hole once it hits the Googleplex.” This makes it impossible to know what happens to the data and governments and users have to trust the company.

Google insists that it stores the queries made through its popular search engine primarily so it can improve the service, but we have to take its word for that. U.S.-based Consumer Watchdog argues that Google’s Chrome browser crosses a new line and says it has "serious privacy concerns" about the browser and the transfer of users' data through Google's services without giving people what it sees as "appropriate transparency and control." Chrome's navigation bar relays their keystrokes to Google even before they click "Enter" to finalize the command.

Consumer Watchdog President Jamie Court pointed out that Google is watching you have an unnoticed conversation with yourself and your information. Jeff Chester, Executive Director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer rights organization said that the way Google has fashioned Chrome, it's a digital Trojan horse to collect even more masses of consumer data for Google's digital advertising business.

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