Google users are concerned about their browsing privacy after a recent update at Google secretly logs Chrome browser users into their online Google accounts, syncing data without asking, a move one expert says has “enormous implications for user privacy and trust.”
As detailed by cryptographer and professor Matthew Green on his blog on Sunday, Google made the change several weeks ago.
“Due to Chrome’s new user-unfriendly forced login policy — I won’t be using it going forward,” declared professor Green. “A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chrome that fundamentally changes the sign-in experience. From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for example, Gmail), Chrome will automatically sign the browser into your Google account for you. It’ll do this without asking, or even explicitly notifying you.”
“Your sole warning — in the event that you’re looking for it — is that your Google profile picture will appear in the upper-right hand corner of the browser window. I noticed mine the other day,” he continued, adding that the “update has huge implications for Google and the future of Chrome.”
“Nobody on the Chrome development team can provide a clear rationale for why this change was necessary, and the explanations they’ve given don’t make any sense.
More here
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
5 comments:
Google is F'd up!! They basically try to force you to use Google chrome if you're not already. My question is why my phone will activate Google voice by itself??
Google Chrome is corrupt. Every time I opened that browser when I already had another browser open, the other browser would lock up and quit working. When Chrome was open, and no other browser was open, my computer would slow down until it locked up from all the invisible background applications that google deployed when their browser was opened. I deleted Google Chrome from my computer, and all my browser issues went away. There was definitely something that the Chrome browser was doing to my computer that the other browsers (Explorer & FireFox) weren't doing. Google Chrome is incompatible with any other browsers on the same computer. By design, I would guess.
Way past time to break up google.
Good old Gulag not being evil!
Just NSA spying on you / get used to it / Gov't makes
them do it .....All Legal !!!
Thank your Congressmen & Obama !!!!
Post a Comment