Thursday, March 1, 2012

Google's New Privacy (or Lack of Privacy) Policy

Fair disclosure: Samantha Grossman is paid to write for the competition...

http://news.yahoo.com/google-launches-privacy-standards-5-ways-control-online-111000285.html

As regular readers already know, Blogspot is operated by Google, so you will want to clean the cookies off your computer after reading this blog. And this blog does not recommend ever typing your full legal name, the address of any place where anyone physically lives, any currently working phone number, or any other information you're not eager to share with all the thieves and pests in this world, into any computer that has a modem. Not ever. All Internet service providers track your online activity, in order to be able to tell advertisers "People who visited this site also read this and bought that," but as long as what they're tracking is a company account (and you're not terribly ashamed of your online activity), this should not be a problem.

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