privacy Archives - Rich Stokoe

Google Watch: Time to DuckDuckGo

Posted on September 8, 2016September 9, 2016 by rich

Google do a lot of good things. They host free webfonts to make the web a nicer place to be. Their cloudy PaaS service, Engine Yard, gets rave reviews. Their maps are better than anyone’s, their mobile OS is the most popular in the world, and their photo hosting offer is second to none. But they […]

“Don’t Be Evil” – Do You Trust Google?

Posted on August 1, 2012 by rich

Do you trust Google? Should you trust Google? Can you trust Google? Google is on the fast train to becoming an international scandal. In May 2010 it emerged that when the company sent out its roving camera cars to take all those “Street View” photos, it also slurped up any and all WiFi data it […]