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This makes a pretty anodyne set of talking points around privacy and wraps it in the web version of a PowerPoint. In text form, this would barely qualify as a blog.

On a more general point these articles really should do more to balance the privacy constraints against the benefits.

Google is not just 'a free service', it is all of the world's knowledge, plus mapping, plus email, plus god knows what else all completely on demand, five nines reliable and free to the end user.



web version of a PowerPoint

It felt more GeoCities to me. But yeah, this isn't the Times' best moment.

Some of the paper's interactive pieces are really well done, and innovative. This... wasn't.

Maybe that's because it came from the Opinion section, not one of the news sections.

Maybe that's why when I get the paper the first section that goes in the recycling bin is Opinion.




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