Filed under: Internet, Security, Google
How's Google's privacy record?
Here's the formula for getting a lot of publicity for pretty much any report you want to produce: Target Google. So it should be no surprise that Privacy International is getting a lot of press for a report released over the weekend.The privacy advocacy group conducted a 6 month study of 23 of internet companies including Google, Microsoft, MySpace and eBay. And they determined that Google doesn't care very much about your privacy.
That conclusion is based partly on the fact that Google collects so much personal data as part of its many services from GMail to Google Reader to your personal search history. While that data may help Google provide you with a better user experience, it also means you're forfeiting some control over your personal information. Google plans to begin anonymizing user search data, but the company was still ranked last in Privacy International's study.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
