“Do no evil” my ass
Have you read the papers today or yesterday ? What do you think about Google's street view ? like it ? Well I do not and I stopped liking anything about Google too.
"European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world’s largest search engine, that it had systematically collected personal data since 2006 while compiling its Street View photo archive"
"Google acknowledged on Friday that it had collected snippets of private data around the world. In a blog post on its Web site, the company said information had been recorded as it was sent over unencrypted residential wireless networks as Google’s Street View cars with mounted recording equipment passed by.
The data collection, which Google said was inadvertent and the result of a programming error, took place in all the countries where Street View has been catalogued, including the United States and parts of Europe. Google apologized and said it had not used the information, which it plans to delete in conjunction with regulators."
Just some quotes from the papers.. Surely all that information collected was just a mistake, that is why it was all collected on those hard drives, you know by mistake, a few gig here, a few gig there, all by mistake, since 2006. That's just 4 years, you know, nothing major.
Well, screw you Google! Time to move back to hating Microsoft people, and using more of that Bing and Live service, because these other guys do not do evil indeed, they just plain are evil.
Edit after more facts
It seems that data collected was in small pieces as some piece of software switches focus a certain number of times per second. It also looks like the amount of data collected is in the number of gigabytes spanning over the years and about 30 countries in which Google cars have been operating.
Taking this into account, a certain number of gigabytes is hard to observe when compared to many terra of information.
My original post seems harsh now...
However, it shows something about the quality of work and precautions of a company the size and influence of Google. They did that horrible play with Google Buzz too.
Wonderful video about great leaders inspiring action
I'm a TED fan. I visit the site on a regular basis and watch new content, especially technology related. However on this video I landed by following a link from a post on fortune cnn. It's technology related by some examples it gives, but it's all about leadership, inspiration and success / failure. It's about what inspires us to take action, buy certain products or follow people. I also find it educational.
Hope you enjoyed!
Z.
Internet Explorer usage drops under 60%
According to latest statistics data published by Stat Counter and Net Applications Microsoft's Internet Explorer reached a historically low level of under 60% market share. This has never happened since Internet Explorer 4 and the Netscape browser wars.
Internet Explorer market share lost is around 20%, dropping from a previous of 80% to 60%. From these 20% most was gained by Firefox, almost 9%, Firefox reaching almost 25% market share, while other browsers took the rest. Google Chrome took 6.7%, Apple's Safari took 2.5% and Opera gained 1%.
Above graphic from Apple Insider can help you visualize.
As for Tourist Profile data.. most of the visitors are using Firefox, followed by Internet Explorer.
Firefox: 42.79%
IE: 29.85%
Chrome: 16.42%
Safari: 5.47%
Wonder how much influence the European imposed Windows browser choice has influenced this drop.
Have a good day!
Z.