Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The subject says it all - this program is really fantastic. Try > looking at the pedestrians crossing the street in New York or look > for your street in Israel (they don't have super-high resolution for > our part of the world). > > http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Call me paranoid, but I believe they really are out there to get me. I downloaded GoogleEarthLinux.bin and ran it as a normal user. It popped up a license agreement that I read, and considered really fishy and unclear. It is quite unclear to me what information I will allow Google to collect, use, and disseminate outside of Israel and outside of Google. It is not clear to me whether agreeing to the license is considered signing for "services", creating a Google account (which I don't have and don't intend to have), and what privacy implications this entails. Yes, I read Google's privacy policy, and it is not clear to me which parts apply and which don't. I suspect that all parts apply. It is clear to me that I am agreeing to let Google automatically install updates on my computer as they see fit, and that while I can terminate the agreement and uninstall the program (I don't know how easy it is) significant parts of the agreement will still be in force even after termination. Has anyone actually studied the agreement and *really* understood its implications? Google is not a company I would trust implicitly, and I feel extra paranoid. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
