Before Google Gets You

Started by Univaded_Fox, February 25, 2012, 12:15:14 PM

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Univaded_Fox

No doubt everyone here has heard and read about all of the wonderful new overhals to Google's Privacy that are being designed to collect reams of personal data that will pry into every corner of your life.  So unless you like your life being laid spread eagle in front of God only knows who, make sure you visit this link before March 1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

And if you are looking for a more private search engine, may I suggest Ixquick.com https://www.ixquick.com/

zenia

*shrugs* I don't search for anything that I want to hide from anyone, so it doesn't bother me.

Acco

Google already does that. They're just converging all the data under one privacy policy, so they can better analyse/use it across their properties. *shrug*

And there's anonymizing stuff that goes on in the background so they can't peek at one account and see what gets your rocks off.

Sensationalist claims are stupid.

kayfox

I think it would be important to note that Google already collects these reams of information.  Their just consolidating 400+ different policies into one.

Also, if you think Google is bad, Facebook is worse.

drewdle

I don't generally subscribe to paranoia, but I'm not at all a fan of this: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/03/19/pinterests-terms-of-service-word-by-terrifying-word/

Follows the topic, but this is worse. Not only does everything that ends up on the site become the irrevocable intellectual property of Pinterest, but because this is mostly a reposting service, most of the material posted doesn't belong to the poster. So a third party could find your work elsewhere on the internet, in a place like DevART where it's at least partially protected by copyright, and all of a sudden you don't own it anymore. And you didn't even know in the first place. That's my understanding of how it works.


zenia

Quote from: drewdle on March 20, 2012, 10:42:04 PM...
Now that is scary. I don't use that site anyway (and have never been there), but still...

dreki

For some reason, that doesn't even sound legal. :|

Carl Foxmarten

Last I heard, they were being investigated by at least one, possibly two governmental anti-trust associations to see if it's fully above-board.
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