Until the recent revelation about Google hacking the Safari browser on iPhones to collect information and set cookies, I would have said – generally – yes, we can trust Google.
Care is definitely needed, but we can trust Google most of the time… Or, can we?
If those reports about the Safari iPhone hack is true – and it appears that they are – then I would say that, sadly, no, Google is NOT trustworthy. Combine this revelation with the recent whole Google privacy policy situation, and it actually becomes scary.
Even false accusations are hard to disprove, but it looks like The Wall Street Journal had plenty of details that look very bad for Google.
However, isn’t Google the “don’t-be-evil” company established by two Stanford University students in the late 1990′s? I have known, depended on, and (I admit) loved Google for this whole century. (more…)
