Google spying is a piffle compared to the spying on British citizens by the petty tyrant council jobsworths, police and their omnipresent CCTV cameras. Who's going to take THEM to task?
- Caren Waxler, Europe, 18/5/2010 4:59

If Google were doing this who else still is?
- Dave, Cockermouth, 18/5/2010 8:43

Just WHY do we need google spying on us. All thsoe fools who think it cool should ask WHY they need to do this and for what purpose. Google do not do anything for free, I bet our Stasi just love this!
- palladin, scotland, 17/5/2010 23:21

This cannot possibly be a mistake. Who are they really working for?
- Gill, Sussex UK, 17/5/2010 20:22

f you're bright enough to use / operate an unsecured wireless router then this is what you get! Kind of like leaving your front door open, then complaining when your place gets robbed.
- Bhinari, West Bromwich, UK, 18/5/2010 6:08

'This cannot possibly be a mistake. Who are they really working for?'

Yes Gill, who do the Google Street View car drivers really work for? The obvious answer is Google, but that's just what they want us to think isn't it Gill?
Just think about it. This article comes out on 18th May. Ring any bells? It was the birthday of none other than Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon, who wrote her memoirs using the pseudonym "Countess of Lipona". "Lipona" is an anagram of - you guessed it - Napoli. Napoli is famous for its pasta dishes - pasta being the favourite food of a certain Francesco Gullino.
Gullino was the Bulgarian secret police agent who assassinated Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov on September 7th 1978.
Do you see now? 20 years later TO THE DAY Larry Page and Sergi Brin established a privately held company called - drum roll please - Google.
This goes deep Gill. Those Bulgarians got Markov and now they're using your network connections to come after you. Trust no-one.
- Chris, Shanghai, 18/5/2010 8:38

In fairness, it really is of large concern when a vastly powerful corporation does something like this, regardless of anything else. Chris' comment is marvellous though.

If people are stupid enough not to secure a wireless network then Google did what anybody else could have done.

But Google has also earned a sinister reputation thanks to blunders by its controversial Street View service, which has sent ‘camera cars’ to take pictures along every road in Britain.

How many of the 20,600 employees will benefit is unclear, but Google’s internal gay group has 700 members.

How many of Google’s 20,600 employees will be affected by the changes is unclear, but the company’s internal gay group — who call themselves Gayglers — counts around 700 members.

One only has to switch on the computer, call up the Google search engine and type in the name of a star like Adele to understand why the digital channel is such a threat to the UK’s performers, and for that matter our whole creative industry.

Nine out of the first ten websites which pop up on Google’s search engine are run by pirates who have downloaded Adele’s output and offer it online far more cheaply than official copyrighted sites and High Street retailers.

Google threatens to destroy not only pop sensation Adele, but Britain's film and music industries. So why is No.10 in thrall to this parasitic monster? screeches the headline...

In the 'article' it says....



Well, i've just Googled "Adele" and ALL of the returns on the first page are sites selling her official merchandise or her Facebook/Twitter profile.

It still amazes me that we can own a computer without the government wanting a cut in the form of a licence. - ak, uk, 3/11/2011 19:26------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have a computer that is connected to the internet you have to have a TV licence even if you do not have a TV. >> Nonsense! You only need a TV licence if you watch the BBC.
- Jessica, The beautiful south, 3/11/2011

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