Google Changes Chrome EULA over privacy concerns

EULA - End User License Agreement

John Brandon - Computerworld

...I still remember the day I found my Google history. Not the one that is on Firefox, which I know I can delete at any time. And not the one that Windows maintains in recent documents, which is sometimes connected to my Web visits if I open a doc or photo. No, I mean this one: www.google.com/psearch. I'm sure I opted-in of this search history at some point, probably when I signed up for Google Desktop. I don't remember specifically agreeing to having Google remember every site I have ever visited. So, there I was, clicking through links from two years ago. I don't have anything to hide, and even if I did I'd use a proxy server, but it was a mouth-gapping-wide moment that my URLs were even there.

Google has a "history" of their own in getting remarkably aggressive about the data they store about you and what you do on the Web. They have also been taken to task on Street View privacy issues, and it has always been a awkward seeing ads in my Gmail window that relate to my private e-mails.

The main issue with the Chrome end-user license agreement seems to be this: the company can use the information with other companies for syndication. I guess that means, what I am typing right now could be re-sold when it posts at Web 2.0 Watcher, and possibly generate more revenue for someone. Google says they are removing that language and the change is retroactive to anyone who has ever downloaded Chrome.

Just a reminder to be careful and remember that someone is probably watching you on the internet, whether it is google or your ISP, you are being watched.