Google privacy policy change. In effect March 1st

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Google's New Privacy Policy - MARCH 1
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137

How to delete your Google Browsing History before new policy
By JohnThomas Didymus

With just a week to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy that allows it to gather, store and use personal information, users have a last chance to delete their Google Browsing History, along with any damning information therein.

Tech News Daily reports that once Google's new unified privacy policy takes effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. After the policy takes effect you are not allowed to opt out without abandoning Google altogether. But now before the policy takes effect, you have the option of deleting your Google Web History by modifying your settings so that Google is unable to associate data collected about you with your Gmail or YouTube accounts.
Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says: "Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more."
EFF advises all Google users to delete their web history.
Meanwhile, Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the Commission to sue Google to stop the policy change. Tech News Daily reports FTC can impose fines up to $16,000 per day for violation.
Daily Mail reports that deleting your browsing history before March 1 when Google's new privacy policy comes into effect will limit Google's ability to track and record your every move online. The process is simple. Follow the steps below:
1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.
2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Click accounts settings
4. Find the "Services section"
5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."
6. Click on "Remove all Web History"
When you click on "Remove all Web History," a message appears that says " Web History is Paused." What this means is that while Google will continue gathering and storing information about your web history it will make all data anonymous, that is, Google will not associate your Web History information with your online accounts and will therefore be unable to send you customized search results.
Google's ability to gather personalized information about you by assigning data to your Gmail and YouTube accounts will remain "Paused" till you click "Resume."


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Damn, wish I had read that earlier

edit: I just look at my web searches and it has everything I ever searched for. I wonder if they have a copy of my pron collection too :rolleyes:

Better get my tinfoil hat on too
 
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I don't understand why you're all freaking out.

Google has always done this, how do you think ads come up catered to what you've been searching for?

The REAL reason why this privacy policy is taking effect is not to mine data about you; that's always been done. It's to UNIFY all of Google's services. Google used to have a privacy policy for every service (Gmail, YouTube, Google.com, Maps, Calendar, etc) and since Android is really taking off and there's rumours of a Siri like application code named Majel in the pipeline, so if Majel is going to be your personal assistant, and can search across all of Google's services, it would have to ask you to approve every privacy policy for each service before it made a search.

Now that's it all unified, it can find whatever information you're looking for without asking you 10 different times to accept the individual privacy policies.
 
jay-d said:
I don't understand why you're all freaking out.

Google has always done this, how do you think ads come up catered to what you've been searching for?

The REAL reason why this privacy policy is taking effect is not to mine data about you; that's always been done. It's to UNIFY all of Google's services. Google used to have a privacy policy for every service (Gmail, YouTube, Google.com, Maps, Calendar, etc) and since Android is really taking off and there's rumours of a Siri like application code named Majel in the pipeline, so if Majel is going to be your personal assistant, and can search across all of Google's services, it would have to ask you to approve every privacy policy for each service before it made a search.

Now that's it all unified, it can find whatever information you're looking for without asking you 10 different times to accept the individual privacy policies.
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before they did not force me to sign on with my account. I guess now I have to make sure I log off.

I didn't get Specific ads until late 2011. Before there were none
 
So Google knows what you are doing when you are logged into google. OMG... The nerve of them...

Do you know who else knows everywhere you've been and they DON'T offer a opt out or a log off? YOUR ISP.

Take your tin foil hat off and enjoy the web like normal people.
 
RockerGuy said:
before they did not force me to sign on with my account. I guess now I have to make sure I log off.

I didn't get Specific ads until late 2011. Before there were none
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Google is really smart, they aren't evil as everyone perceives them to be.

When I search for something, it's usually a Wikipedia article. So anytime I'm logged in, the first search result is usually the Wikipedia article that I'm looking for.. when I'm not signed in, I'll get the Wikipedia article a few links down.

This makes access to information so much quicker, sure they might keep track, but since everyone is using Google services, and most likely the Chrome browser, you can always search in Incognito mode if you're really crazy.

Google doesn't hide their privacy policies and what they do. They are an OPT-IN company, whereas someone like Facebook is an OPT-OUT.. which in my book is a lot worse.
 
jay-d said:
Google is really smart, they aren't evil as everyone perceives them to be.

When I search for something, it's usually a Wikipedia article. So anytime I'm logged in, the first search result is usually the Wikipedia article that I'm looking for.. when I'm not signed in, I'll get the Wikipedia article a few links down.

This makes access to information so much quicker, sure they might keep track, but since everyone is using Google services, and most likely the Chrome browser, you can always search in Incognito mode if you're really crazy.

Google doesn't hide their privacy policies and what they do. They are an OPT-IN company, whereas someone like Facebook is an OPT-OUT.. which in my book is a lot worse.
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qft

they had a yellow notice banner on every one of their services for the past few weeks to notify everyone and their grandma that changes were happening.

I for one, welcome our Google overlords.....
 
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Well at least now someone know's I have been googling Albino Midget Porn; hopefully someone will take this information and do something about it to turn my dream into a reality.
 
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