Comments on: Locked into Google http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/ South Africa's technology news leader Mon, 21 May 2012 08:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: lamename http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/comment-page-1/#comment-3574 lamename Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:29:29 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12944#comment-3574 John Herrman over at Gizmodo has been mulling over the same thing. Check out: http://gizmodo.com/5476386/how-to-escape-from-googles-clutches-once-and-for-all John Herrman over at Gizmodo has been mulling over the same thing. Check out: http://gizmodo.com/5476386/how-to-escape-from-googles-clutches-once-and-for-all

]]> By: joe http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/comment-page-1/#comment-3535 joe Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:53:06 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12944#comment-3535 I don't use _any_ Google services. It's not that hard. I don’t use _any_ Google services. It’s not that hard.

]]> By: Greg http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/comment-page-1/#comment-3524 Greg Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:26:38 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12944#comment-3524 @bob: It's hard to say exactly what was exposed, as Google changed quite a bit and never told anybody what they were doing. And that's a big part of the problem, at no point were you told what you were exposing, and who you were exposing it to. You had to trawl around blogs of people who had fiddled with buzz and analyzed what it was doing to get an idea of what was going on. Trying to get buzz itself to tell you what it was doing was, and stll is, an exercise in futility. What it certainly did do, though, is expose the private email addresses of people you were following/followed, which Google added automatically without your permission. @bob: It’s hard to say exactly what was exposed, as Google changed quite a bit and never told anybody what they were doing. And that’s a big part of the problem, at no point were you told what you were exposing, and who you were exposing it to. You had to trawl around blogs of people who had fiddled with buzz and analyzed what it was doing to get an idea of what was going on. Trying to get buzz itself to tell you what it was doing was, and stll is, an exercise in futility.

What it certainly did do, though, is expose the private email addresses of people you were following/followed, which Google added automatically without your permission.

]]> By: bob http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/comment-page-1/#comment-3522 bob Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:53:47 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12944#comment-3522 Just to be clear, were actual telephone numbers for contacts exposed? I'm not sure that's accurate. Just to be clear, were actual telephone numbers for contacts exposed? I’m not sure that’s accurate.

]]> By: Chris Preen http://www.techcentral.co.za/locked-into-google/12944/comment-page-1/#comment-3477 Chris Preen Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:04:23 +0000 http://www.techcentral.co.za/?p=12944#comment-3477 What is particularly worrying is that the two founders - Brin and Page - are going to be giving up veto rights in 5 years time. They are the advocates of "Do no evil", who will look after that when they're no longer in control? Chris Preen What is particularly worrying is that the two founders – Brin and Page – are going to be giving up veto rights in 5 years time. They are the advocates of “Do no evil”, who will look after that when they’re no longer in control?

Chris Preen

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