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It does not matter for the OP if Google's behavior is illegal or not. Ethic is independent from law.

• quaunaut 12y ago
  I suppose, but his arguments are primarily couched in the notion of 'what nefarious thing can be used with your private data', of which Google's committed a grand number of... zero, bad things with. And as far as any evidence whatsoever has shown, they've actually fought FOR your privacy from the government. Are you trusting them with it? Most definitely. But you're using their services, that trust is implicit. The same way that it's implicit that your bank has your money, or that your phone carrier holds your calls. To ask them to absolve themselves of any ability to snoop is literally to cancel out their reason for existence.
  • holri 12y ago
    For targeted advertising a real name policy is not necessary.
• panarky 12y ago
  OP says "we never saw Google shut down its service in protest" Do you remember this headline? "Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship" [1] Google withdrew from the largest, fastest-growing gold-rush market because censorship violated their principles. Show me one other large company in any industry that has taken a stand like this. Not Microsoft. Not Cisco. Not Bloomberg. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/technology/23google.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/technology/23google.html