Googling Privacy
I have to look at this report more at length. I use Google for a lot of things (not so much it’s search engine, but it’s docs, reader, Gmail, Calendar), so it’s important. Lots of other companies mentioned as well. (via)
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June 12, 2007
[...] the general blogosphere (see this snapshot of Techmeme at 4PM yesterday) and the biblioblogosphere (Library Stuff, Librarian in [...]
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June 13, 2007
A haemorrhage of personal privacy…
This weekend, a report was released by Privacy International, a London-based watchdog group, which criticized Google for creating “the most onerous privacy environment on the Internet.” The report has received quite a bit of flak for b…
So what to do about it?
About a week or so ago, I noticed the web history tab on my igoogle. I was deeply disturbed by the amount of info there and began deleting the history. I realized a few clicks later that even if I delete all of this, Google is still going to have this info. So I subconsciously decided to ignore this. In the meantime, I have added even more google accounts to my reptoire.
So, what to do?
Sherry