how do you feel about google desktop

greenhorn · Aug 18, 2006

i was going to load up zone alarm free and it said to turn off google desktop b4 continuing...the problem is that i didnt know or see it running on my computer?
but b4 deleting it i wondered what people thought about it?

prometheos · Aug 18, 2006

The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation said a new feature recently added to Google Desktop is a serious privacy and security risk because of the way a user's data is stored on Google's servers. An excerpt from their article is below, which includes the statement "Google will have copies of your tax returns, love letters, business records, financial and medical files, and whatever other text-based documents the Desktop software can index".
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See the full article at: http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_02.php#004400 Feb 9/06

greenhorn · Aug 19, 2006

in other words
delete that SOB ASAP

rmruk · Aug 19, 2006

It is O.K. to go to Google... But don't let Google come to you.

Jud149 · Aug 20, 2006

I agree, get rid of it. I just got a new puter and got rid of it the first thing.

greenhorn · Aug 21, 2006

already done!

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