And we were worried about the Bush administration spying on us? Google just took away our privacy and safety. I haven't tried it, am just seeing it on the news today, and if anyone knows how to block it please post it.

Google has provided internet users a way to locate you through your computer. You can read the license plate on your car in your driveway as internet users view where you live. If you walk out the door, you can be seen.

I'm only repeating what they showed on the news. Does anyone know if this can be blocked? What an outrageous and unsafe situation! A pedophile's delight I would imagine as just one example.

Over the line.....way over....boycott called for.

paula

As a search engine it is a great source of junk mail. Funny how the sales pitches come first.

As a news source it is both censored and manipulated.

It will show me what you are doing in your back yard but it won't show me what I need to determine if my leaders are lying or not.

"Beware the Suits."

I am horrified. I use google all the time...my only concern being that when I did a desktop search it showed me ALL the first lines of my threads,posts and worse...my private mail.
Anyone know of a safe alternative?

This is monstrous
Thanks for drawing attention to this.

Privacy was stolen from us long ago without our even knowing it. Since the 1950s it has been possible for anyone with enough money to know what you do in your backyard. Now it is possible for us to know what "they" are doing in theirs.

Like the ICBM, technology can be an equalizer.

After a bit of searching on the subject of privacy and browsing- pertaining to Google anyway, I found a Add-On for FireFox called Customize Google.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743
and
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
info-Features

* Use Google Suggest (suggest words while you're typing)
* Add links to competitors
* Rewrite links to point straight to the images in Google Images
* Removes image copying restrictions in Google Book Search
* Secure Gmail and Google Calendar, switch to https
* Block Google Analytics cookies
* Hide the Gmail spam counter
* Make URL previews on sponsored links visible NEW!
* Add favicons in the web search result NEW!

* Remove ads
* Anonymize your Google userid
* Add a result counter in search result
* Filter spammy websites from search results
* Add links to WayBack Machine (webpage history)
* Remove click tracking
* Add links from Google to your bookmark manager
* Use a fixed font for Gmail mail bodies
* Stream Google search result pages NEW!
* Sticky Google Preferences NEW!
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Next week I'll try to look up other search engines - but I bet they all operate the same way.

tips-
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/search/searchtips.php

Thank you!!!

paula