Comments on: What will Google's Chrome OS watch you do?

Google's announcement of the Chrome OS is big news, but what will the ramifications for privacy be? We take a look at Google's privacy track record on some of its other products and services.

[joshdeboer]

I see trouble ahead for Google.

[Neumenon]

I won't be using Google's OS for the same reasons I do not use Chrome or any other service besides Search.

They are not what they seem or present themselves to be.

[vivian2009]

Thanks for your post, really helpful.
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[Dango517]

What is your security software watching you do or your IP? Who's watching the watchers? Here part of the answer for you and a hint ............................. Cnet.

[Dango517]

and I'll be watching you.

[rylee_ann]

i was thinking, imagine if google gave its info to the goverment. that would be scary. big brother is watching you!

[TheReverendDC]

Ladies and gentlemen, free sometimes has a higher cost than paying. Since the service is free, Google can do anything with it and the information that you enter. Your private information will be "in the cloud" of internet information, from which anyone can glean youj personal information with the right knowledge, time, and equipment.

I hate "cloud" computing, as ChromeOS will espouse. I hate the fact that we are voluntarily "Big Brothering" ourselves to everyone, just in the hope that someone we don't know will notice us. It makes no sense. The government doesn't have to take our freedoms away, they just need to contract Google and buy all of their tracking information. Much easier this way than paying billions to set up elaborate infrastructure, and better than the bad publicity from the Patriot Act.

By all means, continue to ***** yourselves to the world in the hopes of having some distant retard notice you. Enjoy. Because NO ONE upon NO ONE would use this information to get you (by the way, Nazi Germany found most Jews in their occupied territories and in Germany not by nefarious means, but by their neighbors "outing" them and the fact that synagogues kept excellent records for family usage, as lineage remains important in the Jewish religion. This is just an example...)

I remember when Google was a search engine...a tiny one. It searched for stuff on the internet. Then came GMAIL, which was a good addition. Then came maps, YouTube, Docs, Sheets, Calendars, FROOGLE(?!?!?!?!), etc, etc, etc. When does "improvement" become "bloat?" And why isn't anyone calling Google a monolithic company like Microsoft when, with this announcement, Google does everything Microsoft does, except for a "gBox." (How much you want to bet that they will come out with one that runs on Linux (that means its "better," apparently, even though only one company has had any form of success commercially with the kernel....Apple. And that's UNIX...but I digress...))

[BigAl35540]

I have a MAJOR ISSUE with being tracked, especially for marketing purposes! I am one who NEVER clicks on advertising, in fact I consider most advertisers liars about their product! If I accidentally click on an advertisement I go into TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES and delete the cookies IMMEDIATELY! I recently downloaded Internet Explorer 8 for my XP Professional OS and was required to replace the old Google toolbar with a new one. The first thing I had to do was TURN OFF the reporting of anonymous statistics to Google, that is ON BY DEFAULT!!! There are still some features of that toolbar that if you use them report to Google and they can't be turned off! I have determined that AUTOFILL is storing the data locally on my hard drive and not some Google server and that is why I will use that feature. I wouldn't use until I had determined that. IE8 actually has some features included that allow you to do things privately without some "big brother" corporation seeing it. You can bet Google Chrome doesn't have any option like that and the OS will be far worse!

Excuse me but I have ZERO TOLERANCE for a corporation or any other entity making money off of my browsing habits! I think it's a violation of our privacy! If this is the way Google makes money then I'm sorry to say they shouldn't remain in business. We as computer users have a RIGHT to put up firewalls that block tracking cookies and to be able to turn off ALL reporting functions in the software we run. The right to privacy is a fundamental principal in the creation of the United States of America and Google has NO BUSINESS in violating that!

I intend to have no part of The Google Chrome browser or the operating system! In fact, I hope it's a complete flop! Maybe that will teach them a lesson about the importance of honoring the right to privacy! I have enough problems controlling the Google Toolbar in IE8 and don't need the extra worry and headache the browser and limited OS would bring. I'll stick with my Microsoft stuff especially since I know EXACTLY what it is and is not reporting! It's amazing what can be done in msconfig.exe!