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Google can be a huge troublemaker in countries with weak privacy laws. If I google my friends name, I can see their college grades, most legal occurrences (fro
by anotherarray 10y ago
Google can be a huge troublemaker in countries with weak privacy laws.
If I google my friends name, I can see their college grades, most legal occurrences (from company incorporation to lawsuits and alimony) and probably the equivalent to their SSN.
- themartorana 10y agoHas Google made this information public? Or are they just indexing it?
- kuschku 10y agoThey have turned it from "can only be found by a dedicated person" to "anyone can find it". Societies usually ban that difference.
- mercutio2 10y ago"Societies usually"? I know a few European cultures, most notably the Germans, make a big deal about this difference, but I'm not aware of other cultures where distinguishing between public-but-obscure and public-and-indexed is a thing. In my opinion it's a terrible distinction to make, as it gives users false comfort about what's actually unavailable to the public.
- kuschku 10y agoEven the US seperates stalking from taking a picture of random people in the background of a landscape picture. The difference between "public and indexed" and "public but obscure" is huge. It’s also the same difference as "taking a photo of outside" vs. "permanent video surveillance of everywhere".
- tanqueray 10y agoThe US has remarkably weak privacy laws, does it not? As in there aren't really any laws on data retention, pseudonymization etc. let me know if I've got the wrong impression.