Don’t use Google DesktopDon’t use Google Desktop

Posted on February 13th, 2006 by Juzman under Security

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that people should not download Google Desktop because it “greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy”.

A spokesEFF said that if the toolbar chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature stores copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers.

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Source: The Inquirer via Flexbeta

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