Google Chrome vs. privacy
MachinesPosted by Henrik Emilsson Thu, September 11, 2008 17:28:17The other day I was using Google Chrome to browse through internet.
One thing I did during that session was to try to download an evaluation of HP Quality Center. I was struggling to register as a user and try to download, but it was not possible.
But how does this relate to Google Chrome? I am not sure if this might have to do with one of their EULA-paragraphs about google owning all data sent to their server:
The day after I had the attempts to download the demo, a woman from IBM called my cell phone. And what was she offering? You might have guessed it by now?
She wondered if she could tell me more about the IBM Rational Testing suite.
Was this just a coincidence? I don't know...
Posted by Martin Jansson Fri, September 12, 2008 18:49:18
Someone from IBM Rational called today. She wanted to sell their test tools. I asked her a few questions and she had very few good answers. For instance, are your tools focused on automation or manual tests? She asked what manual testing is.
Posted by Henrik Emilsson Fri, September 12, 2008 10:16:01
I did not register my cell phone, but I guess that my name is present on the computer; and if my name is sent to google it won't be hard to locate my cell phone number.
Posted by Stefan Thu, September 11, 2008 18:26:59
Seems scary...did you register your cell phone number when installing/downloading Google Chrome? I think I stick with IE/FF...although I like a lot of other Google features