Look Out... Big brother is getting more and more brazen.
According to Stuart Turton - PC Pro News;
Google has admitted the auto-suggest feature of Chrome's Omnibox gives it potential access to users' keystrokes, providing the company with a wealth of information on the browsing habits of its users.
Apparently Google says it intends to store about 2% of this information, alongside the IP address of the computer that typed it.
Here is the original wording of the EULA that accompanied Google's chrome browser:
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services,"
However, the company has now drastically amended this to read: "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."
As far as computing is concerned, and companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. what you do in the privacy of your own home is no longer private but belongs to them.
Oh well... at least the licence was to be 'non-exclusive' to Google... Which means that we would be able to use our browsing information as well...
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/222834/g...addresses.html