Browser War Articles

Within hours of Google Chrome’s entry into the Web browser arena, concerns about the browser’s privacy and copyright claims within the terms of service echoed throughout blogs and news organizations around the world.

With a unique ID embedded in each copy of Chrome, so the grumble goes, Google could use Chrome to harvest huge amounts of behavior data and potentially dramatically erode any remaining semblance of online privacy. This idea has given us pause. Is Chrome a major privacy threat or have the good net citizens of the world been overreacting?

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