DISQUS

Martin Wildam · 1 year ago

How is it possible that Apple stays in that list when they try to urge people using Mac or Windows (don't understand why a phone needs iTunes to start working), why it wants my credit card (I don't have any) although I am not going to buy something in their just-click-here-shop, when they try to prevent me from using my own mp3 as ringtone or when they put encrypted firmware on their iPods?

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coldbrew · 1 year ago

The fact that eBay made it into this list, at #2 no less, makes me quite skeptical. Perhaps their detractors are just more vocal online? I believe there is more to this story, and it probably can be found by digging into TRUSTe and the Ponemon Institute. Maybe some journalist will bother, or maybe I'll have time this evening.

Why aren't these survey organizations asked to provide the script given to people deploying the surveys? How are the questions are asked and in what order is very important, among other things.

coldbrew · 1 year ago

Ok, I promise to proof read before I submit :)

So, I went to TRUSTe's site and found their premier sponsors on this page:
http://www.truste.org/about/customer_list.php

I think it is both relevant and interesting to look at the list of companies there.

Web Design Beach · 1 year ago

No surprise for that at all. Everyone is seeing that they use more and more their monopole position without any view on others at all.

Tony · 1 year ago

I'm not surprised Google have dropped out. They seem to becoming a victim of their own success in this respect, in that they're getting bigger and bigger and branching more. But the down side of that is that everyone that uses them becomes more sceptical about how their information is getting used.

I am surprised that eBay are that high up though. Although I have the impression that they've been trying to 'clean up' their image this year. I can't remember specifics, but I remember hearing about them in the news doing things to get rid of rogue traders etc. So perhaps that impression has stuck in the mind of consumers which is why they're so high.

John Lessnau · 1 year ago

Us in the search industry have realized that Google moved to the dark side when they became profit obsessed. Their everyday user base is finally catching on.

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AIDS Drugs · 1 year ago

I think google has far too much access to a lot of information that becomes a real concern to me. The problem is in a lot of cases I think they are fully within the law. For example one concern is now people keep health records on google, combined with their search history and email this seems like a huge database of information on individuals. Why wont the gov go to google like it did with the phone companies and simply give immunity like they did for the phone companies?

Wii Fit · 1 year ago

They deserve.

Goran Web Design · 11 months ago

Hmmm... I agree completely with the "Big Brand" syndrome.. and, speaking just from personal experiences, I've noticed more and more people buying into this whole "Google is taking over the world" mindset... poor sods, trying desperately to gather information to make things more efficient and convenient for users and they end up losing the trust of those users as a result