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It's the reality of the situation - not the company
As much as I have distrust of Microsoft, I would have responded the same if they had been the inovator of this product instead of Google.

The points were that the feature is very useful for some people, not everyone deals with sensitive information or is a regulated industry, and that the feature was an optional one that was *off* by default.

So I'm not giving Google any extra slack, I'm just saying that the feature is very legitimate and useful for some users, and that since it was off by default nobody was being "invaded" by an evil spyware program by installing the desktop tool.
Posted by: sylerner   Posted on: 02/19/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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The Do No Evil Company Is After CASH  RobertoSalazar | 02/16/06
Spy ware  Endoscopy | 02/16/06
Goole will become evil. Like all big US company  shfy70 | 02/16/06
Message has been deleted.  RobertoSalazar | 02/16/06
Message has been deleted.  TimeBomb | 02/16/06
Hardly capitalism's fault...  Omch'Ar | 02/17/06
I second that  anythingbutmine0 | 02/20/06
Note to moderators...  techotter@... | 02/24/06
Excess Paranoia  sylerner | 02/16/06
Would you have said the same about MS  TrueSpeak | 02/16/06
It's the reality of the situation - not the company  sylerner | 02/19/06
Yeah right  anythingbutmine0 | 02/20/06
Can't Google help corporations ?  dmoreau | 02/16/06
Google's non-existent technical support or technical service  abuhtb@... | 02/16/06
Picasa & Google Earth  Yensi717 | 02/16/06
Come again?  anythingbutmine0 | 02/20/06
Google Desktop  magistre | 02/16/06
Consider this:  anythingbutmine0 | 02/20/06
Its surprising  TrueSpeak | 02/16/06
Yes it is...  Anti_Zealot | 02/20/06
Is it everybody's computer?  bboyce@... | 02/17/06
Wow...  techboy_z | 02/17/06
Didn't you know?  Omch'Ar | 02/17/06
Sorry, but...  anythingbutmine0 | 02/20/06
Strong HIPAA concerns  gsterner@... | 02/17/06
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