ABC columnist on Google: 'amoral'? 'Big Brother'?

ABC columnist Michael S. Malone used some real tough words to describe Google: 'amoral" (twice), 'sinister' (twice), 'Big Brother' (thrice), -- in his column: "Is Google turning into Big Brother?"  

It's a worthwhile read for Googlephiles because it highlights some impotant information Google would like to brush under the rug.

• Privacy: He recounts a Computer World reporter's conversation with a Google insider that Google was not being forthright with Congressional inquiries about Google tracking of users' private behaviors and identities. 
  • This prompted Mr. Malone to posit "Did Google Lie? (to Congress) in its recent reply to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's privacy inquiry.
• Claims of Distribution Rights in Chrome Terms of Service: Malone alludes to a post by Jeff Shaw of CityPages that advised that journalists not use Google's Chrome browser because Google was claiming some "perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, royalty free" distribution rights to anything created using the Google browser. 
  • Malone is right to question if this is sinister behavior.
  • Who in their right mind would think that by using a new experimental browser one automatically handed over one's intellectual property rights forever to Google via fine print no one was aware of? 
  • Malone said Google rescinded that term of service on Thursday. 
    • How could it take any reputable company four days to fix such an outrageous and sneaky kleptomaniacal application?
    • This is just another high profile incident confirming that Google has near zero internal controls or management accountability.  
• Chrome security Nightmare: Mr. Malone was also dead on in highlighting the work of Mr. Cheung at TGDaily who points out that Google Chrome is a security/privacy nightmare in that it makes private financial data publicly available. 

Bottom line: 

Google's pixie dust efect on the media appears to be wearing off.

More and more in the media are opening their eyes to Google's very real, growing and ominous dark side.