Tagged: online privacy

10:09am

Wed February 29, 2012
Digital Life

Protecting your privacy amid Google policy changes

Originally published on Wed February 29, 2012 9:00 am

Credit Mark Lennihan / AP

Many Google users are nervous about the tech giant's changes to its privacy policy, set to take effect on Thursday.

Google has already been collecting bits of personal information from its various services, but soon it will combine it all to produce more targeted ads.

So let's say you are signed into Gmail and you decide to watch a video on YouTube. And then you also check out your friend's vacation photos on Picasa. Well, Google will now combine all of that data to create a single, fuller portrait of you for advertisers.

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4:39pm

Sun January 29, 2012
Digital Life

Can capitalism keep Google from becoming evil?

Originally published on Sun January 29, 2012 2:28 pm

Credit Mark Lennihan / AP

Let's start with a quick Google experiment.

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