[conspire] Privacy on the Web: Google's Revised Policy: Last Day to Delete Your Search History

[Don Marti]

"Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can
nod; never nod if you can wink." -- Martin Lomasney

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begin Margaret Wendall quotation of Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 02:20:40PM -0800:
> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:20:40 -0800
> From: Margaret Wendall <mwendall at gmail.com>
> To: Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>
> Cc: conspire at linuxmafia.com
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Privacy on the Web: Google's Revised Policy: Last
>  Day to Delete Your Search History
> 
> Don,
> 
> Thanks for the hints. After telling my family and friends to always
> remember that anything we enter into our computers is like a postcard,
> available to all who want to read it for the rest of time. Since all of us
> are human, this is a good time to straighten out the messes we've caused.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> 
> > begin Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:04:31AM -0800:
> >
> > > You should note that Google takes measures to do tracking (or targeted
> > > marketing, as the concepts are related and poorly distinguishable) of
> > > both logged-in and not logged in users even if they have 'Web History'
> > > disabled, so, if you don't care to have Google be able to correlate data
> > > from a lot of places, you shouldn't stop with mere disabling that one
> > > particularly egregious example.  (EFF's article notes the extent of
> > > default data-mining they do.)
> >
> > My new favorite Firefox extension is Request Policy:
> >  https://www.requestpolicy.com/
> >
> > It does the closest thing I've seen to correcting
> > an unfortunate misfeature in how web browsers handle
> > third-party images and scripts on pages.
> >  http://zgp.org/~dmarti/freedom/framing-privacy/
> >
> > One other interesting piece of Google news is that
> > Google plans to honor "Do Not Track" headers sent
> > from the browser.
> >  http://zgp.org/~dmarti/www/google-you-know-me-down-with-dnt/
> >
> > I'm not going to disable Request Policy any time soon,
> > but it's important to see that Google management is
> > starting to realize that ☞ increasing creepiness of
> > tracking does not correlate to increasing ad revenue ☜.
> >
> > Bonus link -- Slade Cutter gives examples of the
> > creepiest practices here:
> >
> > http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/22/the-7-creep-factors-of-online-behavioral-advertising/
> >
> > --
> > Don Marti
> > http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> > dmarti at zgp.org
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Margaret Wendall
> mwendall-at-gmail-dot-com
> "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Juvenal

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Don Marti                    
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