Still GaGa for Google
With all the hubbub over Google’s privacy record — first with Google Maps, then with the recent study by Privacy International — it’s easy to forget that Google has a long record of being the good guys, and that they have never once turned over user data.
Unlike Yahoo, which kow-tows to government censors and freely turned over data on a Chinese artist that led to his 10-year imprisonment for speaking out against his government, then warns you they may do the same thing to you.
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Doesn’t google also censor their Chinese search hits? Don’t get me wrong, I agree that the Yahoo thing is WAY worse, but Google censors along with the rest.
BTW, I googled to find that. It’s still my choice, too.
Nah, they only hand over your emails if you’re accused of hate speech by one of the preferred groups.
With all search engine – online mail providers – it’s six of one – half a dozen of the other. Any of them at any time will have the ability to give up any and all information acquired about their users. Rule of thumb – never use these emails for anything you don’t want to see in public. Any searching you do – know that it can go public at any time. Period.
And as SarahK noted – they haven’t handed out info in China – merely censored data on searches… at least until they found out that they were going to get bad press on that – then they just shut it down. I guess the thought process was… After all what’s a little censorship among good business friends… right? What possible harm could come from that?
How much goes on behind the scenes that we don’t know about? It’s anyone’s guess. Personally I don’t trust them – I used multiple engines when searching for things – to see what comes up where. It’s interesting to note the differences.