Well, I would ban its use and installation if the browser concerned was
processing any form of sensitive data ...
My 2c worth
Nigel
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Nigel Roberts
Brenda Scourfield wrote:
> Now here's an interesting item that has cropped up this morning from one
> of our developers. Other issues spring to my mind in that is the Google
> server situated outside of the EU or in a country that has no DP rules ?
>
> Quote'
> The contact centre seem to have fallen in love with the Google Toolbar,
> they've become really possessive of it and won't let me remove it from
> their computers, even though it really messes up our web apps - blocking
> popups etc.
>
> The feature they use is the spell checker, when filling out any form they
> click the spell check icon and it checks the text boxes and text areas.
> There's nothing wrong that as such, but it sends all the text in the box
> to Google's servers spell checks it there and then sends replies back to
> the users browser.
>
> It sends the text remotely to be checked as I don't think the toolbar can
> guarantee if the user will have a dictionary installed on their PC.
>
> What are the data protection issues of us sending all our contact centre
> info to Google? Contact assessment, public protection requests etc.'
>
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