Anick Jesdanun has revealed his thoughts on Offline Google Mail, a new offering from Google.
Much like using a normal email client, Offline Google Mail allows users to view & compose emails whilst offline. When you come back online, your emails are automatically sent.
You can read more over at stuff.co.nz
Stuff reports that Google has its eye on hiring New Zealanders to do software development roles for it, but the Kiwis have to be willing and able to move to Google’s Sydney office.
Apparently Google received 75,000 applications for the roles after they announced that they required over 6000 programmers to work for them.
Google has not (so far) said it will employ Kiwis locally, although there is a small amount of staff working for it in NZ.
So Google did not commit any security breaches when it collected users’ data in New Zealand, however Luke Appleby writes on Stuff today that he is unclear why Google admits that information breaches are committed in countries such as Ireland and Denmark, but not so in Australia.
Its a valuable question - why is the data collection from some countries considered a ‘mistake’ worth apologising for, but not from New Zealand? It seems that when a country does not specifically request that the data be deleted, Google does not consider it to be a mistake.
Mr Appleby states that “…it was the lack of transparency, and the global attitude of Google which led many to question their “don’t be evil” motto”.
The debate continues….
Google came under attack today for using its 3D ’street view’ cars to collect potentially compromising data about New Zealand homeowners.
Concerns have been raised about the amount of information Google has acquired through these means, with the company’s assurance that it is not misusing the data it has gathered.
See the full article here.
