E-Dribble

Eric Schmidt of Google says that only miscreants need privacy. So, if you worry about what Google is doing with your data, you should be ashamed of yourself. You probably also deserve to go to jail.

Now, I’ve talked about the thin veil of Google’s “Don’t be Evil” facade.  Usually just to poke fun at those that might actually believe it.  So far though, this story just doesn’t rate any space here.  We all know that the giant that is Google doesn’t feel you should have any right to privacy.  Big deal, right?

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In a move that should scare the living hell out of every 12 year old that has written nasty things about their classmates on the bathroom wall, a judge has ruled that you don’t deserve your privacy if you’re going to use it to say nasty things about people.

Someone was using a blog to bash current and has-been models in the New York area, which kind of ticked Liskula Cohen, since she was one of the targets.  She decided to sue to find out who was calling her a skank, ho and psychotic.

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It’s been a while since I’ve trusted Da Goog.  The problem is, the beheamoth makes some fantastic applications that are practically impossible to replace.

For me, Google Chrome(the browser) is not one of them, however that might not be the case for others.  So I present to you the Iron Browser.  It’s Google Chrome stripped of all the aspects of the application that exist simply to identify and track you.

The two reasons I never even tried Google Chrome as a browser is because it was made by Google and it didn’t block ads.  If I was hurting for a browser, I would rest on my laurels and try it if it had the ad blocking ability, but you’re going to have to build a pretty whizz-bang browser to unseat Firefox with my favorite addons. Nonetheless, with the the stripped “features” and the addition of ad blocking, I’ll give it a shot when it’s available for linux.