Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Google Privacy

First difference, many of their services require you to sign up for a Google Account. When you do, they will ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number or credit card. If you want to take full advantage of the sharing features they’ll offer, they might also ask you to create a publicly visible Google Profile, which may include your name and photo. Second Difference is they may collect and store information locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage and application data caches. Third difference certain services include a unique application number. This number and information about your installation may be sent to Google when you install or uninstall that service or when that service periodically contacts our servers, such as for automatic updates.

            The policy itself has 60 or more policies governing its different services. Now, everything has one policy, so it’s easier to understand and keep track of what you’re agreeing to as a user. Now you don’t need to sign in to use many of their services. To sum up the privacy change essentially indicates that Google will start tracking users’ behavior on all of its different platforms, not just during searches.
            I disagree with the new policy because they are now going to start stalking people to see what they are doing.

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