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Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable'

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Sat, 10/16/2004 - 11:34 — Christoph C. Cemper

Stick your hand up if you want Google to know what pictures you have, and what MP3 files you have…

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Google Desktop Search allows users to opt out of sending the company back detailed usage data, but it isn't possible to firewall it completely. Much more ominously, reckons Burns, Google's product manager Marissa Mayer said she expected the private queries to generate more hits for google.com. Most people, she believed, would choose to combine personal and web searches resulting in more revenue for Google's ad business.

What really freaked me was when I saw my own PC's files appear in normal Google.com searches… I feel watched somehow…

Google Desktop privacy branded 'unacceptable'

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