As follows, google will soon use your web history to send your marketing and sales information.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/320137

Too late, the deadline for doing that was before yesterday.

But surely, once the new policy has kicked in, its logging all the the time anyway.
- So you only gain is you are planning to change your web usage after the 1st of the month, and to be honest, im not really. Big brother or not, while it would be a bit awkward if they emailed my mum to say i searched for some porn last tuesday or whatever, I dont really have anything to hide.



Daniel

I guess this only affects folk who are registered for 'gmail' and not just those who use goggle as an occasional search engine!?

I understood that what you 'surf' is recorded anyway for 'advertising' purposes.

Logging on to google now, on one system, takes it up to a new level by feeding all google stuff.

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Originally posted by scootz
I guess this only affects folk who are registered for 'gmail' and not just those who use goggle as an occasional search engine!?

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Does it really matter? I get so much spam and junk and advertising forced down my throat on web, tv or just walking down the street, It all just tends to wash over me anyway. I'd rather it was targeted, at least that way Im less likely to get an advert for viagra, sanitary towels or injury compensation, and more adverts for things I acctually search for and I am genuinely interested in.

Just visited https://www.google.com/history/

and its appears there is still the option to remove/clear and pause your web history as well as the option to expand it beyond search data only.

I have to say, it was quite interesting to look at the list of everything I have ever searched for... its a long list! And includes things like lots of searches for my postcode, and postcodes for places I have visited (freinds, family, girlfreinds house, etc) created when getting google maps to estimate journey times.

You could proberbly build a fair profile of where I have been each weekend from it, predict when im not at home, etc.


Daniel

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Originally posted by scootz
I guess this only affects folk who are registered for 'gmail' and not just those who use goggle as an occasional search engine!?

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Also youtube, blogger, google earth, android, etc

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A year or so ago, Google released a copy off all their Data / user search info they had collected. There were no names only USER:123 info.
A newspaper in the USA, analysed the data, and actually managed to locate a user, just from that data. They worked out the age, they had a cat and a dog, and had been on holiday, the sort of car they drove, the area they lived in. This was all from search data. They eventually worked out where this woman lived, visited her and interviwed her. I read the article so its not second hand info.

So it IS possible to identify someone from amonymous user data, if you have enough of it, and the tme to track people down.
Trouble is, you are not going to stop this. You cannot be anonymous in the world as it is today. You can run, but you cant hide completely, unless you drop ot of the technological world all together, and just pay cash or bater for everything.

How many people actually use Google. there is too much information for anyone to single out another user.
I have nothing to hide , so it doesn't concern me.

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Originally posted by wilkingj
A year or so ago, Google released a copy off all their Data / user search info they had collected. There were no names only USER:123 info.
A newspaper in the USA, analysed the data, and actually managed to locate a user, just from that data. They worked out the age, they had a cat and a dog, and had been on holiday, the sort of car they drove, the area they lived in. This was all from search data. They eventually worked out where this woman lived, visited her and interviwed her. I read the article so its not second hand info.

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