It's Official: Google Is Evil Now ?
In a radical privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users across all services—email, Search, YouTube and more—sharing information with no option to opt out. The change was announced in a blog post today, and will go into effect March 1.
I have GMail on my Nook Colour, and I went to search something online when I realized it had imported my searches from my computer. That’s right, it had SAVED my searches and then sent them to another device without any permission.
woah woah woah no no no
/SCREAMING
“We believe personal information should not be held hostage and we are committed to building products that let users export their personal information to other services. We don‘t sell users’ personal information.”
so also according to this they will store browsing data for 180 days even when you are signed out. Fucking damn it google you were the last great big internet company, we loved you over facebook, why are you doing this
Not cool, Google. Can you not see how very Big Brother this all looks?
I had noticed my searches being imported — if I logged into my gmail account on a school computer and then went to search something, for example my favorite German-English dictionary, the hyperlink text was purple as if I’d clicked it on the school computer already. Which I hadn’t. And on one hand it’s convenient in some ways but on the other hand it’s a whole lot of CREEPY DO NOT WANT.
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