{"id":75834,"date":"2009-12-11T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Mozilla-Veteran-Speaks-Out-Against-Google-over-Privacy-Issues-129507.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-11T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T11:38:00","slug":"mozilla-veteran-speaks-out-against-google-over-privacy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/75834","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Veteran Speaks Out Against Google over Privacy Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google may be getting bigger and bigger, but it looks like it’s losing friends on the way. Its relationship with Apple has become very tense these days after years of being very close. Now it looks like Mozilla, another traditional partner for Google may be moving away from the company as well, albeit not officially. Now Asa Dotzle, a Mozilla veteran and one of the people behind the original Firefox project, is lashing out at Google for some comments its CEO Eric Schmidt made and suggesting that maybe people should switch to Bing instead. <\/p>\n

The comments were made by Schmidt in a CNBC interview and have gotten a lot of people riled up claiming that it shows Google’s lack of interest in the privacy of its users. “I think judgment matters,” Schmidt said. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines–including Google–do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.”<\/p>\n

The first part is what stirred up the most controversy, perhaps rightly so, as it would suggest that those wh… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google may be getting bigger and bigger, but it looks like it’s losing friends on the way. Its relationship with Apple has become very tense these days after years of being very close. Now it looks like Mozilla, another traditional partner for Google may be moving away from the company as well, albeit not officially. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}