google desktop out for linux?

[Sven Richter]

On Friday 29 June 2007 15:12:10 Kristian Rink wrote:
> [Sven Richter <sveri-list at gmx.de> @ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:23:58 +0200]
>
> > > It's no different then a lot of organisations.  The super markets
> > > do the same thing with loyalty cards and I here very few people
> > > worrying about that.
> >
> > Thats right, and thats why i dont use this "feature".
> > As i dont use things like google desktop or google mail.
>
> Same here. A lot of people recently seem to have given up on privacy,
> not thinking twice anymore about giving away quite a lot of personal
> data without actually asking why, for which reason, following which
> motivation they are collected and how they potentially could be abused.
> Not worrying about personal data is a pretty dangerous thing to do in
> an age of "preventive surveillance" and globally linked networks...
>
I think the problem ist that most people dont even think about
it, thats why i threw in this thought.
Just a reminder to what may happen with all our data and how
to prevent it a bit at least.


Greetings
Sven Richter