What will Google's Chrome OS watch you do? | Webware - CNET. There's a fly on the wall, and it is watching you. Lawyers who blog talk a lot about the death of privacy on the net. Everything you send over the air, or the net, can be intercepted, used and abused, and just generally messed around with. This always raises lawyer hackles; whom do we sue, and when do we sue them? Additionally, lawyers handle private information on a daily basis, and have a duty to take "reasonable" precautions to keep that data private. Large commercial entities deal with private information as well; health data, financial data, the list is endless. The ease and convenience of using computers and the web to make our lives easier is addictive. Once you have paid your bills online, it is tough to go back to writing checks and licking stamps. I suspect that there will be a backlash against Google's coming Chrome OS for this precise reason. Google will have to prove that an OS that is based upon Internet connections, and Google's control over the data, is safe. Of course, in today's world, safe is a relative term, isn't it?
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