Google Chrome acts as a keylogger

About 2% of the time, however, the keystrokes are recorded, along with associated data such as the IP address of the user who entered those keystrokes.

"Users were faced with Google retaining all of their search logs and all of the URLs they were typing."

Reacting to criticism that its newChrome browser was essentially acting as a keylogger, potentially recording users' every keystroke, Google Inc. yesterday said it would render anonymous the data it collects from the browser within 24 hours.