Friday, February 08, 2013

Microsoft hypocritically attacks Google over privacy...

And conveniently forgets to mention it’s own privacy track record...

Microsoft has renewed its attack against Google, this time focusing on the companies email service, Gmail.

Yes, Gmail scans every email you send or receive, and no, there isn’t any way to opt-out. Yes, it probably does breach international privacy laws and yes, Google does systematically steal and abuse our data.

There’s no denying that Google has become a powerful enemy of personal privacy that shows almost no regard for the law.

While the new ‘Scroogled’ campaign launched by Microsoft might only be an advert for Outlook, an alternative to Gmail, they do have a point.

However, among the accusations you’ll notice that Microsoft criticise the fact that Google use personal information to serve targeted advertisements. But let’s look more closely at Microsoft’s privacy site and we’ll see this statement: Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Nowhere to hide: New Facebook app to track offline users...
  2. Google reports record requests for private info...
  3. Skype makes chats and user data more available to police...
  4. Think privacy is threatened today? You ain't seen nothin' yet...
  5. How Microsoft and Yahoo are selling your data to politicians...
  6. How Google and Facebook manipulate and determine your searches...

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