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Google Takes Flak over Chrome License, Privacy
By Clint Boulton

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Google has moved to quell concerns that the EULA afforded Google a little too much control with regard to what happens to the information people entered into the browser window. Google's Omnibox also raises privacy concerns, but these don't seem to have much merit.

For all of the glitz and glamour swirling around its Chrome Web browser, Google is working out to put out fires among corporate users concerned that the EULA enables Google to own source code and other proprietary information.

One day after Google's beta launch of the Web browser Sept. 2, users complained that Section 11 of the end-user license agreement gave Google too much control over information after it was entered into the browser.

An anonymous Google Watch reader told me Sept. 2 that his company is banned from using Chrome.

He also noted that a security officer of another organization told him Chrome was put on that company's banned software list, calling for users to remove it from their system.

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