Recent statements by Eric Schmidt, Google's boss, about privacy have not been to the taste of Asa Dotzler, director of communities around the development of Firefox from Mozilla. On his blog, he wonders if Eric Schmidt is not simply missed the real problems of personal privacy on the Internet, and simply invites users to stop using Google as search engine default within Firefox. Instead, he invites them to opt for Bing, the engine of Microsoft, publisher of Windows and Internet Explorer.
Reason for grunts: an off Eric Schmidt (photo), interviewed this week on the set of CNBC. Then a reporter asked if users should consider Google, and by extension services online, like a trusted friend, he meets the following sentence: "If there are things that you do not want people to know Perhaps he should start by not making them. "
"If you are so desperate that respects your privacy, the fact is that search engines - including Google - keep this information for some time. We must understand the United States, we are all subject to the Patriot Act, and it is therefore possible that such information is made available to the authorities, "said Eric Schmidt. A polite way of suggesting that only people who commit wrongdoings have to worry about signs that keep the search engines?
It is well understood and Asa Dotzler, who on his blog, wonders if the owner of Google is really in its place. "That a company so that stores personal data on its servers is headed by someone who simply does not have the concept of privacy really frightens me, and it should scare you too," says he, before to indicate that Microsoft is more respectful of the information associated with the Internet, what we may consider oneself by comparing the pages explaining the procedures related to privacy for Bing and at Google.
