[PCWorld]

Post your comments for Google Privacy Checklist: What to Do Before Google's Privacy Policy Changes on March 1 here

[BenMackie]

I have talked with a lot of Google users about turning your web history off, and we are all not getting that option. The option we get at google.com/history is an option to TURN IT ON. I find this shady as I am sure I have a Google history, as I have been a user of their products for close to a decade.

[BenMackie]

I have talked with a lot of Google users about turning your web history off, and we are all not getting that option. The option we get at google.com/history is an option to TURN IT ON. I find this shady as I am sure I have a Google history, as I have been a user of their products for close to a decade.

[xyberviri]

Everything you do is tracked, your cell phone company tracks who you call and where you call them from.

your credit card company tracks where you spend how much and in some cases what you buy.

If Google isn't tracking what your browser is doing then your ISP is tracking where you go and what you did on a packet level, ever since Napster companies like Sandvine have been popping up left and right with tools that let your ISP see what is in your traffic.

There are camera's all over most of the UK/EU america is slowly following behind.

The point is your data is being harvested by everyone not just Facebook or Google and its not just because they are changing their privacy policy.

Shoot i have a minecraft serer, if i look in server.log what do i find.... OMG ip addresses.... Now im tracking users.


If you dont want to be tracked go live under a rock. other wise if you want to deal with the rest of the world get over it.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 31 January 2013 - 06:35 AM
Reason for edit: Removed first line. Could be offensive to some.

[AntieMoe]

On the Ads portion - the Opt Out option is on the LEFT, not the right.

[SteveFoxPCW]

AntieMoe, on 29 February 2012 - 08:14 AM, said:

On the Ads portion - the Opt Out option is on the LEFT, not the right.

Thanks for the catch. Opt Out is indeed on the left, and we've just made the correction on the page.

[PeekingFae]

It told me I could turn it on with my old account, but I recently created one for work, and that one it had me turn off. I also noticed the new account had automatically been opted into a bunch of other google programs that I wouldn't want to be in...and that I don't know how to turn off, but since it's my work one has my real full name.

[baddogOTM]

xyberviri, on 29 February 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

If you dont want to be tracked go live under a rock. other wise if you want to deal with the rest of the world get over it.

If you don't want to be tracked, just use a Tor browser and set up a new email account.

[MrLeeGH]

We know who you are

[xyberviri]

baddogOTM, on 01 March 2012 - 01:27 AM, said:

xyberviri, on 29 February 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

If you dont want to be tracked go live under a rock. other wise if you want to deal with the rest of the world get over it.

If you don't want to be tracked, just use a Tor browser and set up a new email account.

Tor isn't any better your just trading one set of eyes for a diffrent but yet still unknown set of eyes.

[jeepmanjr]

xyberviri, on 29 February 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

I think you all are a bunch of tin foil hat nut jobs.

Everything you do is tracked, your cell phone company tracks who you call and where you call them from.

your credit card company tracks where you spend how much and in some cases what you buy.

If Google isn't tracking what your browser is doing then your ISP is tracking where you go and what you did on a packet level, ever since Napster companies like Sandvine have been popping up left and right with tools that let your ISP see what is in your traffic.

There are camera's all over most of the UK/EU america is slowly following behind.

The point is your data is being harvested by everyone not just Facebook or Google and its not just because they are changing their privacy policy.

Shoot i have a minecraft serer, if i look in server.log what do i find.... OMG ip addresses.... Now im tracking users.


If you dont want to be tracked go live under a rock. other wise if you want to deal with the rest of the world get over it.

"Tin foil hat nut jobs" because people are concerned about privacy? Have another glass of Kool-Aid and leave this topic to the grown-ups.

This post has been edited by jeepmanjr: 03 March 2012 - 07:49 AM

[YukonCornelius]

Thanks for the great info! Very Useful.

[RichardHale]

I don't even have history turned on.... which is the only thing that actually matters here

[MLStrand56]

Another re-run article. Re-running this article on Mar. 6 is more than a little ridiculous.

MLStrand

[DennisRLevesque]

I must say that the way things are going does seem creepy. Internet security is such a big issue, it seems that google's policy voids/nullifies any security 3rd party apps are supposed to provide. How can one ensure private conersations and protect trade secrets? I'm sure they would have de-crypting codecs to get around that solution. You jest by saying "if you feel paranoid...", and people most always ridicule those suspecting "conspirocy theories", but ignore bonafide evidence when it's there. In case you don't know, you are PC World, not Google. And I really don't think this was a typo; I think it was a Freudian Slip: Quote,"Over time, the service may use additional information about your activity on Google or other information you provide us in order to deliver a better search experience." Why do you assume that info I might provide Google is providing info to "us"? Yes, Now that's creepy.

[Start2Cloud]

However, is there any case that Google company (or any other) abused a personal data?