At the end week, we <a href=”http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100802/13325810455.shtml”>wrote about</a> a WSJ article that discussed some of the tensions inside Microsoft over whether to <a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383530439838568.html” target=”_blank”>side with advertisers or consumers</a> when it came to privacy features in Internet Explorer. This week, the WSJ appears to have a alike article, <a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html” target=”_blank”>about a alike debate within Google</a>. I really expected the tale to be quite alike to the Microsoft tale, however, honestly, I was attractive surprised at the lack of any “there” there in this latest article. It appears to capture a single document by a mid-level staffer, who tossed outside a bunch of random thoughts for brainstorming purposes — many of which, it appears, everyone at the corporation knew were non-starters — to suggest that the corporation was “agonizing” over competing privacy and advertiser interests. These sorts of documents get made all the age, and don’t mean anything really.
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There are <i>some</i> fascinating nuggets in the piece, which suggest that the absolute struggle over privacy issues and Google will come down the road after Sergey and Larry leave the corporation. As it stands, those two still appear to have attractive strong views on protecting users’ privacy, correctly realizing that not doing so will really do more <i>extended term</i> harm to both consumers and Google itself. However, not everyone is excellent at recognizing the extended term impact of profitable, however small-sighted, small term decisions.
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If anything, the article does serve as a reasonable reminder that for most of us, Google really does have access to a <i>tremendous</i> amount of potentially sensitive material, and basically everyone has place their trust in the circumstance that the corporation won’t abuse this access to data. To date, the corporation has really been quite excellent about all of this, however there’s certainly no guarantee that will always be the condition. If anything, the increased scrutiny on Google should have the corporation looking to place in place a framework immediately to “forward protect” human beings’s data, in condition prospect Google execs alter tactics. I reckon that could go a extended path towards retaining human beings’s trust.<br /><br /><a href=”http://techdirt.com/articles/20100810/12022410573.shtml”>Permalink</a> | <a href=”http://techdirt.com/articles/20100810/12022410573.shtml#comments”>Comments</a> | <a href=”http://techdirt.com/article.php?sid=20100810/12022410573&op=sharethis”>Email This Tale</a><br />
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