[Tfug] NPR - science friday - on now - open source, google apps, MS online...

George Cohn gwcohn at simplybits.net
Fri Oct 5 16:47:04 MST 2007


jblais wrote:
> Most callers supported
> free Open Source, and voiced concerns about privacy and the mining of your
> documets by the provider (Google, Yahoo, M$...) to see if you typed
> something like "I like soda pop", and then spamming you with adds for
> coke... To me, that mining is worse than just posting my documents on every
> pc screen or power pole in the county!.
> Joe
>

It get worse!  The other day I searched for something on Google and it 
gave me a list of places in Tucson where I could find it!  I didn't 
mention Tucson in the search.  ;-(

George Cohn




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