German Government Against Chrome

German Government Against Chrome

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Blogoscoped.com report that the German government have issued a warning to citizens using Google Chrome. Here’s a quote from German news Tagesschau (translated);

“The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung.”

So basically, the German government fear Google is gathering too much information about it’s people :-) German government being over cautious and protective or Google in the wrong with it’s lax privacy policies and mass data collection?

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  1. [...] John Lessnau wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt“The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung. … [...]

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  2. film fan Says:

    wow, sounds like they might be acting on more than one motivation here…

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