Below is an email from the PPIAC, Professional Private Investigator’s Association of Colorado, to which I belong. “Do no evil” takes on many colorations, it seems.

Not sure how Google wanting to take any and all searches any person does online while using their browser “Chrome” (which sounds in passing conversation a lot like the word ‘Crone’… rather poetically so), so Google can publicly display, translate into other languages, et al, forensics and data investigation from annual fee data bases of criminal records etc, that PI’s engage with online regularly.

Google’s promotional purposes, are not exactly what a PI considers a useful by-product of their work… that data gathering is usually held as confidential and is most often protected by legal statutes.

Wonder what that means for the feds who might use Chrome to gather data. Are you laughing yet at the possibilities for gaffes and freak spillage? Goodness.

You may have heard that Google is introducing a new Web Browser, “Chrome.” If you are tempted to install and use this browser for investigative research of any kind, pay attention to the following quote from the “Terms of Service…”

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services.”

Read the fine print… Your “confidential data” may not be so confidential.