Comments on: Big brother or user customization? http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:22:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Google Philosophy « .dscape http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-6871 Google Philosophy « .dscape Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:57:51 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/#comment-6871 [...] Many are the cybernauts currently putting Google on a hold, suspecting a Big-Brother-like conspiracy. [...] [...] Many are the cybernauts currently putting Google on a hold, suspecting a Big-Brother-like conspiracy. [...]

]]> By: vitor http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-6842 vitor Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:31:29 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/#comment-6842 @Karma_Police: I DO believe that the pause option only stops displaying it to you and data keeps being collected. Personal data collection is not exclusive to Google. Google just makes use of it better than the others, and makes us aware of it, what, to a certain extent, scares me a bit, because things are obviously moving towards a complete monitoring of our web life. It is not just Google's actions that scare me a bit, but the fact that we are very close to complete monitoring of our actions. Imagine all the sites you visit that are using Google Analytics... Google know who you are and where you are :-) @Karma_Police: I DO believe that the pause option only stops displaying it to you and data keeps being collected. Personal data collection is not exclusive to Google. Google just makes use of it better than the others, and makes us aware of it, what, to a certain extent, scares me a bit, because things are obviously moving towards a complete monitoring of our web life. It is not just Google’s actions that scare me a bit, but the fact that we are very close to complete monitoring of our actions. Imagine all the sites you visit that are using Google Analytics… Google know who you are and where you are :-)

]]> By: Karma_Police http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-6841 Karma_Police Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:18:41 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/#comment-6841 Google has a post about it, explaining how they use it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/search-privacy-and-personalized-search.html They explain the user benefits... If they do anything else with the data, I don't know. Basically, you can Pause it in your account settings (the "Web History" service), or you can use google without logging in, which is probably the safest way if you are paranoid and don't believe the pause option actually does anything. Google has a post about it, explaining how they use it: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/search-privacy-and-personalized-search.html

They explain the user benefits… If they do anything else with the data, I don’t know.

Basically, you can Pause it in your account settings (the “Web History” service), or you can use google without logging in, which is probably the safest way if you are paranoid and don’t believe the pause option actually does anything.

]]> By: Mind Booster Noori http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-6838 Mind Booster Noori Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:36:36 +0000 http://www.vitorrodrigues.com/blog/2007/09/24/big-brother-or-user-customization/#comment-6838 Wow, I didn't know of that new "feature"... And yes, it also scares me a little bit... Wow, I didn’t know of that new “feature”… And yes, it also scares me a little bit…

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