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Google Toolbar tracks searches after it’s disabled
- http://sunbeltblog.b...ches-after.html
January 25, 2010 - "Ben Edelman, Harvard privacy researcher and guru has revisited the features of Google Toolbar and was appalled to discover that disabling it doesn’t really disable it. He is recommending that all users uninstall it. In a long, thorough and well-written piece on his blog* Edelman discusses how he monitored the Toolbar’s behavior with a network sniffer and documented the transmission of data back to Google... Not only does it track a user’s Google searches, but it also phones home information about searches done in other search engines...
Update 01/26: According to PCWorld**, Google said it will publish a download update today that will truly disable the monitoring when a user tries to do it."
* http://www.benedelma...s/012610-1.html
** http://www.pcworld.c...upposed_to.html
Jan 25, 2010 10:10 pm
