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(Unverified)Dec 12th 2009 1:17PM
I know that I'm going to be labeled as "ignorant" by this statement but,.. I don't care. This whole thing has gotten blown out of proportion. It's not like this is some huge revelation. Google (and Yahoo, AOL, whoever) stores information about you and what you are interested in. Guess what,.. so does your grocery store. Hell, your own ISP will store information on your activities.
Google can store whatever they want about my browsing habits. I don't search for porn, look for bomb making supplies, or do anything illegal that I would be concerned Google is keeping tabs on. And quite frankly, I'd agree with Schmidt's statement, "If you don't want anyone to know what you are doing,.. maybe you shouldn't be doing it."
Fact of the matter is that this practice is just a fact of life when it comes with the internet. Deal with it. I'm actually kinda surprised to hear the support of Bing on here. So far I haven't been impressed and I thought that was the general consensus.
(Unverified)Dec 12th 2009 1:46PM
Deal with it?
Some of us are, as opposed to those who just roll over and play dead because they're too lazy to actually "deal with it."
Sorry to disappoint , but not all of us are willing to passively do as we're told and just drink the KoolAid.
(Do you work for Google BTW?)
(Unverified)Dec 12th 2009 2:57PM
No, I don't work for Google (lol). Although, given the opportunity, I would at the drop of a hat, 'cuz I could use the money.
Roll over and play dead? Drink the KoolAid? What?!
(I don't even know what I should respond to that)
I'm not saying that we should tread blindly into the internet, but perhaps accept that a certain amount of data that we communicate on-line is recorded and stored. Whether that data is used for directed advertising, product improvement, or malicious purposes,.. it's just a record of your behavior. It can only be used against you if you give them something that can be used against you.
Of course there are methods of circumventing this data capture: Using TOR, public computers, etc., but really, it all comes down to "what do you really have to hide?"
(Unverified)Dec 13th 2009 12:50PM
@Rob-
Sorry for being unduly harsh with my earlier comments.
By "drink the KoolAid" I meant accepting that the lack of privacy on the web should be accepted as a given. I think you called it "a fact of life?" To my way of thinking it's not a "fact" at all. It's just another unchallenged company 'policy' running amok.
So if I barked, please excuse me. I just get tired of so many people assuming there's nothing anybody can do about this issue since they view what happens on the web as something akin to a 'force of nature' and hence uncontrollable.
It's not.
It's human behavior. And that *can* be controlled by public consensus and/or legislation.
So please don't automatically give companies like Google the benefit of the doubt, or give in to what they're doing without a challenge. Google is a company. And some companies, like some children, need to be taught that there are limits as to what is considered acceptable behavior.