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Funny! But I guess its no laughing matter. I think privacy has gone bye bye. You can blame Google but their not the only ones with your data.
Are you kidding? Oh evil Google! Don’t track me while I post my life on Facebook.
The NSA, FBI, and CIA can play 5-degrees-of-separation on anyone using the wealth of connection information from Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Schmitz is right. Privacy is dead.
If your privacy is that important to you, then you simply should terminate your internet service.
They have no idea. Google is just the tip of the iceberg. Go to http://twit.tv/sn and watch podcast # 264 by Steve Gibson. We are so bleeped. By the way the Feds are keeping a record of all our web searches/connections anyway just as they can get a list of all your phone connections.
There is no legitimate reason they need all this personal information but they have it anyway however even they may not have as much as business and of course they can get it from business.
:)) i just laughed so hard about this i damn near peed my pants..
you do know that if you get a divorce, two years before you get a divorce.. your credit card issuer(s) know you will be getting a divorce?
Surprise! everyone else doesn’t want to pay the google tax for your information as they fear wgoogle will become THE holding company for such information.
Let’s see. I use Startpage for my search engine, and dumped Google OS a few months ago, and have gone back to Firefox.
Am I safe from the “Just Do Evil” group in Mt. View, with their annoying Prius spy cams?
Imagine if there was a book out there which had your name, address, and phone number in it!
And even more scary, imagine if they printed this book every year and gave a copy to every single house in your city!
An unprecedented invasion of privacy…
Yea, right. Tell Congress to set up a “DO NOT TRACK ME LIST”.
Sure. The government would NEVER want to track anybody.
#6 Not even close. First of all Google owns one or more data grabbing cookie planting companies. These cookies can tell from your browser and the plug ins it contains which computer the browser is on even if you go through tor.
If you delete cookies it can still tell because the next time you go on line they ID you and start tracking you.
Blocking third party cookies or even all cookies including all flash cookies won’t work because they can still grab enough side stream data being shared by the browser and the plug ins that it uses to ID your machine. That along with the fact that you are killing all cookies is just one more data point they can use to ID you. They can identify your machine and aggregate the data about that machine.
You don’t want to be tracked? Get rid of your internet connection. That is your only option.
I heard JCD say something once about image search.
So here we go!
Google IoI goggle! Master of the Web! what can you tell us about:”the future is written in stone but everyone is trying to rewrite history”
http://google.nl/images?hl=nl&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=the+future+is+written+in+stone+but+everyone+is+trying+to+rewrite+history&btnG=Zoeken&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&biw=1916&bih=872
I LOVE YOU GOOGLE!!
They knew this info before the internet. Your credit cards and magazine subscriptions sold you out long ago.
A few of the relevant issues here are
1. Privacy vs Anonymity
2. Government vs Non-Government Tracking
3. Criminal vs Civil activities
With “at least” these three touchstones, it would be informing to have a good discussion on where the boundaries of such data collection IS, WILL BE, and SHOULD BE.
Of note, “currently” the content of a phone call is “private” against all. If the computer connection is dsl, I don’t know why the same concept should not apply? One difference is the content of the phone call is person to person, while the dsl call is person to computer? Is that a difference that makes a difference?
I’ve always thought the “privacy” of phone calls as an “extension” of the privacy of the home/castle actually did not make logical sense. The phone call being more like using a blow-horn broadcasting out an open window.
What is “privacy?” At its heart, it is to be left alone. In a sense, passive monitoring honors that definition===its only when people take action on information that privacy is directly violated. It does make sense to prevent the invasion of privacy by backing up one step to stop the collection of private information, but how far back for what (commercial?) interest will always be debated.
#5–fubar==very interesting “and I believe it too!” except that it is a statistical prediction meaning “not everyone.”
All things are connected. Ha. ha. We are all but chemical algorithms.
Of course it’s destined for failure.
Collecting, selling and mining data on individuals is the currency of the internet.
If YOU haven’t figured that out by now, Google probably has!!
Or, you could add this to your hosts file and possibly prevent a lot of the snooping, or at least speed up your browser load time:
# [Google Inc]
127.0.0.1 pagead.googlesyndication.com
127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com #[Google AdWords]
127.0.0.1 adservices.google.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com #[urchinTracker]
127.0.0.1 http://www.google-analytics.com #[Google Analytics]
127.0.0.1 imageads.googleadservices.com #[Ewido.TrackingCookie.Googleadservices]
127.0.0.1 imageads1.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads2.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads3.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads4.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads5.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads6.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads7.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads8.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 imageads9.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 partner.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 http://www.googleadservices.com
127.0.0.1 apps5.oingo.com #[Microsoft.Typo-Patrol]
127.0.0.1 http://www.appliedsemantics.com
127.0.0.1 service.urchin.com #[Urchin Tracking Module]
Well, I guess hell could freeze over. its not like writing the fascists in government another letter is gonna hurt.
Tracking me would be very difficult. A lot of junk is filtered out by Privoxy, but I always have Javascript turned off anyway and cookies enabled only for a few select sites. No, Firefox does not share plugin data. My browsing habits also keep me away from being “tagged” in other places. I never go to those “popular” sites filled to the brim with banners, Javascript and web beacons. If I ever do, all shields are up. I never use Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter or any “social network” crap. Even if they track me, there is not much they can tell about me. On top of that, I connect to a router that is shared by my entire apartment building. Couple that with using 3 browsers depending on the destination, and they will have a very hard time figuring out what belongs to me and what belongs to my neighbor.
But I might start using Tor just in case. Good call.
Wonder if anyone associated with this is shorting G’s stock?
AND??
WHo here knows that MS already has most of your info? WINDOWS tells EVERYONE.
#16 You don’t use flash or any other plug ins? They can’t tell which version of the browser is on your machine? Steve Gibson seems to think Firfox is blabbing and in fact all browsers are blabbing.
They are sharing way more data than needs to be shared and the way it is shared can act almost like a group of letters spelling out a name.
The fact that you are doing the things you say you are is going to make you stand out like a guy driving an APC. They might think you’re are three people but I’d say that’s it. They still know what to expect from each browser instance and can shape adds based on that.
You want to be private? Don’t use the net. Pay cash and only spend small amounts at any given time.
Google.
Redefining “evil” one letter at a time.