[governance] Google Caught Tracking Safari Users: What You Need to Know

[Louis Pouzin (well)]

Using information collected illegally doesn't make its use legal. It
doesn't matter whether or not a fly by night company was used as a stooge.
Google knew very well they were violating privacy laws. Since the only
thing they care of is money, the appropriate reaction should be a fine, in
the range of one month revenue.
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:58, Daniel Kalchev <daniel at digsys.bg> wrote:

>
> On 20.02.12 11:06, Marie GEORGES wrote:
>
>>
>> Do we have to loose our time to complain every 6 months  on new
>> IT/criminal practices from  dominant IT companies ! !
>>
>
> The problem is, that most infringements are in fact done by small
> companies. As is the case with Apple's platform -- Apple by default has
> access to your address book -- in general, if you don't like that you don't
> buy their devices. The only "safe" way is if you build your own devices,
> but this is beyond the capabilities of most of the population so they
> settle for some level of trust -- to their mobile device vendor, to their
> communications company and for their software services.
>
> But, it is entirely possible and perhaps the way those companies conduct
> their business to use a "fuse" company, who will publish the rogue
> application -- so that it can steal your data and give it in hands of
> someone else, be it Google, BBC, Procter & Gamble (to name just few), or
> perhaps in the hands of those non-existent US and elsewhere "secret
> service" para-governmental structures. In the not so politicaly correct
> speech, we call all those collectively "The Mafia".
>
> Trouble is, that one trades their privacy in exchange for the convenience
> of communication. This has been so always in human society, not something
> recent with computers, mobile devices and the Internet.
>
> Daniel
>
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