Posted on 11/07/2009 7:36:37 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
Google Dashboard is unveiled revealing just how much information the internet giant stores about its users. Benjamin Cohen asks whether it raises privacy concerns.
Google has this morning unveiled the Google Dashboard, a simple way of immediately seeing all of the data the internet giant holds on you and allowing you to delete, if you wish.
For years, Google has been under pressure from privacy campaigners due to the huge amount of data the company has stored for many years about nearly every internet user in the world.
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I used to use scroogle.org, until I found out they are run by people with a 30-year hard-leftist activist history. Now I use famlisearch.com
Thank you SO much for sharing the famlisearch.com. Is there any way to add it to my toolbar?
I haven’t used Google in a long time. They are a bunch of leftists.
I use Ixquick.
I’m not sure. I’d like that myself.
ping to me and bttt
Not yet. I think they’re still in beta.
How is Bing re intrusiveness ?
Bookmark.
It's quite chilling.
However, with some of my applications I use for photo storage, editing and such, like Picassa, requires a GOOG’l email - (and I use that email add only for the limited use-needs, not for personal correspondences.)
However, is that enough of a window for GOOG’l to capture the rest? And what about Yahoo? the email adds I use most are with Yahoo! and I use Yahoo search somewhat?
And what about sites we use, like Amazon, that also keep track of things like what books/products we look at. Are they plugged into GOOG'l and would any that are therefore give GOOG'l the pipeline to all our other net use?
Thanks for the famlisearch.com link - I will also start using that.
Now, another question: If one plugs into the new GOOG’e dashboard to look and then to choose to delete their stored info - will that really delete it or flag it for a record to store in a ‘lockbox’ for them the access at any time later, but one that we will be unaware of = i.e., is this dashboard a ‘reverse’ ruse to flag those who object to data being stored, with the idea being that these would be the ones they should REALLY keep track of? (One does get a bit paranoid, given the ‘state of the union’)
I know they have (or at least had) a javascript which captures all keystrokes while you have their page open. So, not great.
Also, I can’t in good conscience support a company that owns half of MSDNC.
I avoid Google like the plague.
Man this pisses me off. I went an created account and now I’m logged into a system that didn’t even have any imformation on me before. Useless and now I have to go back and email all my friends and tell them to ignore this announcement because probably 99% of them don’t have accounts and may create one in order to see if there is any history on them. WoW!
Exactly right - that’s what I was saying. And any info you give during signup is now linked to the real database based on IP/browser/cookies etc.
Is there anyway that I can closed this account out?
Unfortunately I didn’t see you WARNING!
I've been using dogpile pretty much - but Clusty looks even better!
THANK YOU!
I figured it out. Go up to your current search bar and click the down arrow. Click “find more providers”. There is a yellow box on that page that says “create your own”. Open up another tab and go to www.famlisearch.com and follow the instructions in the box. That will add it to your list of search engines and then you can make it your default.
"We don't care who you are," Cerf told yesterday's conference. "We only care about the pattern of behavior you exhibit." Which is true. But that might be read in more ways than one.
Thanks christianhomeschoolmommaof3
You are welcome. I meant to add that you can only do that using Internet Explorer. I tried to find a way using Mozilla but there wasn’t one.
I use Trend Internet Security Pro and you also did would be surprised by the amount of intrusive information requests it blocks from google. I never use google as a search engine, the majority of the “blocks” come from the google ads embedded on websites.
The requests that it blocks are for my social security number, my debit card, my credit card, my address, my telephone number, my paypal account and for various passwords.
I feel tainted after reading their "About" page. I think they could have made their point without being so explicit. It pretty much defeats the purpose of being anti-porn, because now I've been exposed to a dose of pedophilia, thanks to them. Really stupid.
Also, how did you find FamliSearch? They only have 17 listings on google.
It was recommended by a friend.
IF we had a Constitutionally restricted government, and constitutionally based corporations - then Cerf would indeed be correct. But we don't, and they aren't!
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