09 Sep 08 German Government Against Chrome
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?
Tags: chrome, Federal Office for Information Security, German government, google, google chrome
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wow, sounds like they might be acting on more than one motivation here…
depends on how people respect the government. In some countries a warning like that would encourage more people to use it !
Simply use the Iron Browser that has removed all of the data collection code.