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Legal spyware on my computer ?

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Contributed by: landaret Wednesday, April 29 2009 @ 02:11 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

I think we begin to see Google business model behind the "use freely my wonderful apps" apparently benign and friendly speech. Using "G Earth" with Google currently associated spyware means inviting Big Brother ; and I suspect its only a beginning.

Considering the scope of Google's grasp on the average use of internet, expanding in the area of browser (Chrome) and even mobile (Android), I am really frightened by the opportunities of malicious usage left open to them.

Call me a pananoiac bloke if you want, but if Google considered this "G Earth" policy a fair one (they may ... we are not obliged to go along, after all), who can tell which kind of "ET call home" hides unnoticed in Chrome or Android

I uninstalled everything from Google right now. I suggest strongly you do it as well.   

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