8 Most Controversial Google Products


#4 Google Map Maker

Google Map Maker allows user contributed data to be put into the Google Maps service, similar to OpenStreetMap it includes concepts such as organising mapping parties and mapping for humanitarian efforts. It raked up the controversy for taking work done for free by the general public and claiming commercial ownership of it without returning any contributions back to the commons as their restrictive license makes it incompatible with most open projects by preventing commercial use or use by competitive services.

#3 Google Chrome

In 2008 Consumer Watchdog produced a video showing how Google Chrome records what a user types into the web address field and sends that information to Google servers. This do my Chrome was srongly critisized by the users for its blatant breach of user's privacy.    

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