Google Chrome Privacy
Posted at 5:56pm EST on 01/02/2009
Matt Cutts, a Google extradinaire, wrote up an article talking about Chrome’s privacy settings. How private is your data? …and is Google becoming “big brother” by collecting your data?
This is all explained by Matt in his article.
Here’s a short excerpt by Matt in his article.
I like that you can manage Chrome’s communications settings in a centralized location. I don’t consider features such as phishing protection or DNS pre-fetching to be worrisome, but it’s nice to give easy controls to turn features on or off. I don’t expect that will stop people from mistakenly repeating that Chrome is somehow scary or has privacy issues, but for the people that care enough to do the research, they’ll be happy to find out that Chrome lets you choose exactly how and when Chrome sends data to the outside world.
I also have to note, I’m a huge fan of Google Chrome — despite being a Firefox-lover. Chrome is amazingly light-weight and easy to use. Definitely worth checking out.
