RE: Google desktop search and privacy

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonnie Granat 
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Google desktop search and privacy
> 
> > 1. The application transmits information via the Internet 
> > about local actions.
> 
> This happens now, without that software, with the Google toolbar.

Good thing I don't have the toolbar!

> 
> > 2. The application is remotely updated via the Internet 
> > without user permission.
> > 
> 
> The original text you supplied said "without user 
> intervention" and that it
> was a "feature," so I don't think you meant to type "without user
> permission."

I meant "permission" because I expect an application to ask permission
before accepting information via the Internet, unless it was specifically
requested by the user (e.g., checking e-mail, doing a Web search, etc.).

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