[hllug] Re: Google policy

Thanks for the share.  I continue to advocate one piece of advice to anyone
on the web, one that's much older than the web..."If you want to keep a
secret, don't tell anyone."  Privacy on the Internet was always a myth and
people who want it want something that's beyond our grasp.

Lisa

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:54 PM, <hc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey gang this response was posted on another lug on Google I found it
> interesting
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> Well, it is nothing new about it, instead of each google has its
> own privacy policy, google combined them in one policy, and as far as
> using your private data to generate ads, they do it already with your
> emails, when you open your email, the ads generator scans your email
> content and generate related ads based on the content, there is now way
> to prevent that, unless you keep using your Thunderbird email
> client.
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> it comes down to what folks share in their email, google+,
> youtube etc... if you don't want to share private stuff use a dedicated
> hosting and host your own email, but again the person who is receiving
> the email might not have the same thing so its content will be shared
> with their email provider ( in this case google )
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> Here is a quote from
> a BBC article about this matter that I found it interesting:
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> "Google's
> new Privacy Policy may indeed be making important changes to what we are
> revealing to it. What's needed is a serious debate about what people
> want to share with such a company or with their friends or family.
> Facebook for instance, trumpets the "granularity" of its privacy
> controls (complexity to you or me). There is much discussion of that as
> technology, but little about the complexity of the new social decisions
> required of every user by the very nature of social networks. Am I
> comfortable showing family pictures to my work colleagues? How much time
> and energy should I devote to keeping in touch with distant
> acquaintances compared to my closest friends?
> For American academic
> Jeff Jarvis, the borderline between public and private is shifting -
> WITH THE PUBLIC EXPANDING AND THE PRIVATE SHRINKING, AND THE WORLD
> GETTING BETTER AS A RESULT. Is he right? As we move into Google's new
> world, it's time to supplement stock responses to privacy stories with
> real analysis of their impact on the new society that is forming around
> us. "
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> Peace.
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