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Topic: Google Privacy Policy Changes ??? |
Richard Sinkler
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Posted 28 Feb 2012 3:37 pm |
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I read an article about the changes in Google's privacy policies and am wondering if they mean to delete your history in Chrome or something else. Here is the text of the article:
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With just a week to go before Google changes to its new privacy policy that allows it to gather, store and use personal information, users have a last chance to delete their Google Browsing History, along with any damning information therein.
Tech News Daily reports that once Google's new unified privacy policy takes effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. After the policy takes effect you are not allowed to opt out without abandoning Google altogether. But now before the policy takes effect, you have the option of deleting your Google Web History by modifying your settings so that Google is unable to associate data collected about you with your Gmail or YouTube accounts.
Tech News Daily reports that Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco that advocates for online privacy, says: "Search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more."
EFF advises all Google users to delete their web history.
Meanwhile, Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the Commission to sue Google to stop the policy change. Tech News Daily reports FTC can impose fines up to $16,000 per day for violation.
Daily Mail reports that deleting your browsing history before March 1 when Google's new privacy policy comes into effect will limit Google's ability to track and record your every move online. The process is simple. Follow the steps below:
1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.
2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.
3. Click accounts settings
4. Find the "Services section"
5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."
6. Click on "Remove all Web History"
When you click on "Remove all Web History," a message appears that says " Web History is Paused." What this means is that while Google will continue gathering and storing information about your web history it will make all data anonymous, that is, Google will not associate your Web History information with your online accounts and will therefore be unable to send you customized search results.
Google's ability to gather personalized information about you by assigning data to your Gmail and YouTube accounts will remain "Paused" till you click "Resume."
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Any comment on what to do?
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 28 Feb 2012 4:00 pm
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Follow your heart when deciding whether to delete your web history. I just deleted mine, which was only my search data. Now, Google cannot display custom ads to me based on my previous searches and websites I visited. Rather, I will see ads based on the content of the pages I visit, which is as it should be.
This has been coming for a year or so. The hit's about to fit the shan.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 28 Feb 2012 4:11 pm
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I routinely delete my history every few weeks or so (in case the girlfriend snoops  ). I just wasn't sure if this was only connected to Chrome or if I have to do more to also affect YouTube, etc... Maybe I'll try the suggestions in the article and see what happens
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 29 Feb 2012 1:57 pm
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Richard;
This privacy issue with Google has very little to do with the computer or device you are using. It does have everything to do with your identity as relates to logins you might have to Google properties.
For instance, Google owns Youtube. If you have created a member sign-in on Youtube, it belongs to Google and will be used to follow your searches and web pages visited.
If you have a Gmail account, and/or are an AdSense publisher, or run an AdWords campaign, you are known to Google and this affects you.
You can clear your browsers' caches until you are blue in the face and this will have no effect on the privacy issue. You must follow the instructions given to stop Google from tracking your searches and web page visits.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 29 Feb 2012 4:42 pm
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Thanks Wiz... All done.
You can probably close this.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 1 Mar 2012 7:49 pm Topic has been unlocked
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I locked this topic too soon!
Gary Lee Gimble sent me an email with a question relevant to this discussion. Here is what he asked:
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"If you have created a member sign-in on Youtube, it belongs to Google and will be used to follow your searches and web pages visited."
"Does the "follow" pertain to once you leave Youtube, signed out??? If I type in search words or whatever in my address bar in a Firefox browsers, not the Google search bar, does that search bleed over and belong to Google? Oh, and I don't use the Google Chrome doohickey either, just Firefox."
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Yes, they may follow where you go when you leave YouTube. This is part of your "Web History." It is recorded whenever a person logs into their Google account on any of Google's websites. That is what the fuss is all about.
Firefox has nothing to do with this. It is not a browser issue; not even a cookie issue. If you have signed up to be a member of anything Google owns, they want to be your red solo cup; your Friend.
Here is a quote from the EFF web page where the instructions for stopping Google from following you around appeared...
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On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future. |
Unfortunately, this change has already gone into affect, on March 1. I imagine you could limit your exposure to tracking if you hurry and follow the instructions on the above linked page.
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Gary Lee Gimble
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 11:30 am
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"if you hurry and follow the instructions on the above linked page."
Wiz, first off, thanks for unlocking this thread as I am furious what Google is doing. Once I log off or leave a Google account, I feel their tracking my every move is an invasion of privacy. Its like, if I want a blow up doll with removable pouch, I don't want to see an ad for blueberry scent KY popping up on my Youtube screen next time I log in. I mean geez...So what are my options? After I leave Google, clear out my History??? Like you said, "if you hurry up," but, I didn't hurry up and wait, its now after the fact. I hope someone files a suit of sorts. Bottom line, its no one's business what sites are visited and what folks are looking at or shopping for. Ya know what, next time I see an ad for whatever, I will contact the advertiser and tell them I am buying their competitors products...
that is all....
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:01 pm
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Gary;
Go to Google.com and sign in (with each identity you use on Google properties), then follow the path listed in the EFF article and at the beginning of this topic. You should end up at a page where you can control how Google tracks your search and web history. Delete all visible history listed on that page (may pan multiple pages). You will see a notice at the top of the page telling you that your History has been "paused." The button will say "Resume." As long as you don't click on the button, your search and website history will stop being tracked (but will still be collected).
This pausing will stop you from receiving targeted ads based on your future searches and pages visited. I don't know if it is too late to stop any targeted ads from be presented to you, since it is now March 2nd.
You may or may not be allowed to disable or pause your web history now, but nobody is forcing you to log into any Google website, including YouTube. If you don't sign in they cannot track you across their search or other sites.
Some Google properties in common use are: Google.com, Sites.google.com, Translate.google.com, Gmail, YouTube, AdSense, AdWords, Blogger.com, Google Plus and others.
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:06 pm
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| Gary Lee Gimble wrote: |
| So what are my options? After I leave Google, clear out my History??? ...its no one's business ... |
Browse in incognito mode (assuming you use Chrome) so nothing gets stored in History. In Firefox a similar option is called Private Browsing.
Don't forget the upside of advertising: it pays for things that we might otherwise have to buy. For example Google provides maps, YouTube, News, search, etc. etc. |
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Gary Lee Gimble
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Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:14 pm
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Thank you Wiz for your response as I offer a last question. Within my Safari browser, sitting top right side, is my Google search engine. By using that search feature, will that also be another mode for them for tracking and storing my moves? Its not like I signed in to anything?
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Gary Lee Gimble
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Fredericksburg, VA.
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:26 pm
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| Don't forget the upside of advertising |
Free conveniences obviously have advantages but at what cost, lack of privacy? When I need a half dozen 100% cotton skivvies, I sorta get offended when I see an ad for linen scent bleach bouncing around my web browser the following day. Sure, I could save some dough on a 50 gal drum bulk purchase, but.....
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:45 pm
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| Gary Lee Gimble wrote: |
| Thank you Wiz for your response as I offer a last question. Within my Safari browser, sitting top right side, is my Google search engine. By using that search feature, will that also be another mode for them for tracking and storing my moves? Its not like I signed in to anything? |
Most websites places cookies on the computers visiting them. These cookies are used to store information about the pages you visit on those websites. When you search with Google, it places a cookie on your hard drive, with a lot of details about what you searched for and which results you may have clicked on.
To make sure you aren't being tracked, set your browser's options to delete cookies when you closer the browser. Make sure you write down your login details to sites you have to log into, as those logins will disappear with the deleted cookies.
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Wiz Feinberg
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 12:48 pm
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In addition to deleting cookies, you may have the option to not allow third party cookies to be placed at all. If your browser lacks granular cookie control, disallow all cookies. You will need to type or copy and paste your login credentials into every website requiring login credentials (like this site).
Or, use the anonymous browsing feature if your browser has one.
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Cal Sharp
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Posted 2 Mar 2012 5:57 pm
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Something you married men want to keep an eye on is your search history, for sure. You don't want the wife finding out you've been searching for, um, bracelets. Yeah, that's it, bracelets, that's the ticket. For her anniversary present, and you want it to be a surprise. And you don't want any other surprises.
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Ray Minich
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Posted 3 Mar 2012 6:34 am
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Google and Facebook have compiled, at the internet user's expense, perhaps the biggest databases of interconnected network users and search vectors conceivable.
Orwellian....
It's too late... the horse has left the barn.
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