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Story: Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 5 May 2005, 6:55 PM)
[Headslaps] Wrong. The privacy fears are not about information being cached on your computer. The problem is that it is cached on Google's machines, and frequently viewed pages that are not secure but which might still contain personal information, eBay or a message board would be a good example of this, will be cached at Google. Then, when someone goes to look at that page, web accellerator will retrieve that cache. If it were only on my computer, I wouldn't care, but it's not, and it virtually invites other users to look at your data.
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Story: Google Web Accelerator sparks privacy fears
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Ok youve got it wrong and didnt even download the... Anonymous -
[Headslaps] Wrong. The privacy fears are not about... Anonymous -
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