Germany's Office for Information Security, or BSI, suspects it is. According to Mashable and Google Blogoscoped, a German TV news programme carried this weekend a BSI warning alerting its fellow countrymen to use the recently launched Chrome browser only sparingly -- "at least for anything other than experimental tasks", Mashable writes.
A translated version of the BSI warning, running on Blogoscoped site, reads:The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung. It was said to be problematic that Chrome was distributed as an unfinished advance version. Furthermore it was said to be risky that user data is hoarded with a single vendor. With its search engine, email program and the new browser, Google now covers all important areas on the internet.
BSI is apparently spooked that, with Chrome, Google can hoover up yet more details about a web user's online activities. This shouldn't come as a surprise. Just as Gmail was launching four years ago, privacy advocates worried that Gmail was snooping on users' inbox to deliver targeted adverts. More recently, Electronic Frontier Foundation, published its concerns about Chrome's "Omnibox" feature. Anything that is typed into the box is sent back to Google's data vaults, which will store about 2 per cent of all details, including search terms and IP addresses.
I think i'll hold of on Chrome for a while.... Justt in case..
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