2 Top-Execs at Google say Google's Privacy Model not Suitable for Journalists, Bloggers, Small Businesses
Posted by Stefan • Thursday, November 3. 2011 • Category: Privacy
Christopher Soghoian a Washington, DC based Graduate Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University has recently written an op-ed for the NY Times, and now Will DeVries, Google's top DC privacy lobbyist, posted a link to the article on his Google+ page agreeing with Soghoian's concerns.
He writes:
In another communication with Google evangelist Vint Cerf, about Google's choice not to encrypt (all) user data, Cerf writes back to Soghoian:
Not really surprising news, but the fact that DeVries and Cerf admit that Google's business model doesn't protect your privacy enough, because it conflicts with their business model is surprisingly open.
Click here to read the Soghoian's full article.
I often disagree with Chris, but when he's right, he's dead right. Journalists (and bloggers, and small businesses) need to take a couple hours and learn to use free, widely available security measures to store data and communicate.
In another communication with Google evangelist Vint Cerf, about Google's choice not to encrypt (all) user data, Cerf writes back to Soghoian:
I think you're quite right, however that, we couldn't run our system if everything in it were encrypted because then we wouldn't know which ads to show you. So this is a system that was designed around a particular business model.
Not really surprising news, but the fact that DeVries and Cerf admit that Google's business model doesn't protect your privacy enough, because it conflicts with their business model is surprisingly open.
Click here to read the Soghoian's full article.
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