So i was just going about my day searching for stuff on Google and a pop appeared asking me to read the new privacy policy of Google, saying that it has been modified for the common public to read and understand. So obviously despite my mind saying that this will be too boring i went ahead and read it.
Google’s new privacy policy is stirring up controversy as various sections debate how the privacy of patrons of Google would be affected by it. Despite the entire hullabaloo, Google is going ahead with its tricky privacy policy, and many are not happy.
"Using the preferences and interaction with Google products like searches and like, Google guesses the user’s age and gender, along with several top categories of interest. These guesses made by Google about the user’s personality can be seen on the user’s Google account, and one has the option to opt out of tracking if one does not like his personality read out to him without any effort on his part!
To prepare this user demography, Google fills up the blanks on the user’s interest through picking up clues on things like travel searches."
Its has a lot of things and i suggest you read them cos its hardly a two pages but basically it tells us that it can collect our cookies for better advertisement placement and out other results for again a better search result but it is all up to us, who in their right mind would disclose their privacy like that. It also stated that our information might be pulled up due to some legal issues like the government demanding it or it may be used in a lawsuit, which i understand but i am still a little sceptical about. But i think this is not what interested me the most, there were links of all sorts of things like the DASHBOARD.
I really felt a little off when i saw my dashboard, i am a cynic but still the feeling that everything i ever did can be put on a single page containing my contacts, my friends, my latest facebook chat, my last facebook post, and all that stuff that i had probably forgotten myself is a little odd.
Another great thing i came across was the data user info and content removal of all the countries compiled in a list. According to google they started keeping a record of all the removal requests from all countries about 6 months ago for full transparency and that made my day cos i spent hours looking at countries and their google traffic and all of their requests. This put a lot of things into prospective like when i saw the traffic in China and Libya, i mean how can someone ban an entire site for the people, is there really no freedom of opinion..?
So check out these policies @ http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Your own dashboard @ https://www.google.com/dashboard/
The Google traffic chart of all countries @ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/
AND obviously all the requests from countries @ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/userdata/
Google’s new privacy policy is stirring up controversy as various sections debate how the privacy of patrons of Google would be affected by it. Despite the entire hullabaloo, Google is going ahead with its tricky privacy policy, and many are not happy.
"Using the preferences and interaction with Google products like searches and like, Google guesses the user’s age and gender, along with several top categories of interest. These guesses made by Google about the user’s personality can be seen on the user’s Google account, and one has the option to opt out of tracking if one does not like his personality read out to him without any effort on his part!
To prepare this user demography, Google fills up the blanks on the user’s interest through picking up clues on things like travel searches."
Its has a lot of things and i suggest you read them cos its hardly a two pages but basically it tells us that it can collect our cookies for better advertisement placement and out other results for again a better search result but it is all up to us, who in their right mind would disclose their privacy like that. It also stated that our information might be pulled up due to some legal issues like the government demanding it or it may be used in a lawsuit, which i understand but i am still a little sceptical about. But i think this is not what interested me the most, there were links of all sorts of things like the DASHBOARD.
I really felt a little off when i saw my dashboard, i am a cynic but still the feeling that everything i ever did can be put on a single page containing my contacts, my friends, my latest facebook chat, my last facebook post, and all that stuff that i had probably forgotten myself is a little odd.
So check out these policies @ http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Your own dashboard @ https://www.google.com/dashboard/
The Google traffic chart of all countries @ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/
AND obviously all the requests from countries @ http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/userdata/
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