Inside the Briefcase
Search History: Google and Germany, Part 3
July 14, 2011 No CommentsGoogle is not the Stasi or the SS; no German has gone on record making those comparisons. Still, Google is an international behemoth that unabashedly scans mail, takes pictures of homes, and keeps detailed records of what people do on the Internet and with whom they communicate. There is no evidence that Google has ever done anything malicious with the information it collects — but it could. And Germans don’t take that lightly.
