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Google: the Un-Privacy Company -- More Google-what's-yours-is-ours-to-give-away

Garret Rogers of Googling Google on ZDnet has an illuminating post: "Google gives developers access to your contacts."

  • While Google extols the benefits of its "open" system it is irresponsibly silent on how it allows third parties "open access" to one of users most intimate and private treasures of information -- ones private contacts.

This is another big evidence point of a long and continued cavalier attitude to users privacy by Google (read on if you doubt this is a pattern -- these posts have most all the relevant links to all the mainstream articles on Google's cavalier attitude to Privacy):