The Office of Security for Germany is advising Germans not to use Google Chrome, suspecting that users are giving too much privileged information. (Maybe they want it all to themselves.)
The German blog Spreeblick.com warned users that this new Google Chrome is probably nothing more than Google Spyware. While Americans were happy to download the new Google browser, some German users fear their privacy.
Germans already have had plenty of problems finding privacy. A surveillance law passed in 2007 in North Rhine-Westphalia gave police and state officials power to spy on citizens using “trojan horse” software, which can be delivered by e-mail and used to scan the contents of a hard drive. Recently that law was overturned. (Back in February 2008).
So it’s no wonder the citizens of Germany should be concerned. Do they really want the data on their hard drive to be analyzed? Where does privacy end and begin?
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