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Ample room for improved transparency
So what should you take away from all this brouhaha about cookies and P3P and IE and Safari? Simple: Keeping track of your privacy preferences online is complicated to the point of being nearly impossible.
Every time a tool attempts to block something – like tracking cookies – companies come up with workarounds. And sometimes these privacy tools end up creating problems for honest Web developers, further complicating the situation.
It’s Microsoft vs. Google in a Web-Tracking Battle – Digits – WSJ
Continue reading: It’s Microsoft vs. Google in a Web-Tracking Battle – Digits – WSJ
More on the WSJ/Google information responsibility theme
It’d be nice if the Journal wasn’t so caught up in its own “privacy scoop” that it paused to wonder if perhaps Apple has an agenda here as well. I’m not arguing Google doesn’t have an agenda – it clearly does. I’m as saddened as the next guy about how Google has broken search in its relentless pursuit of beating Facebook, among others.
In this case, what Google and others have done sure sounds wrong – if you’ve going to resort to tricking a browser into offering up information designated by default as private, you need to somehow message the user and explain what’s going on…. Continue reading: A Sad State of Internet Affairs: The Journal on Google, Apple, and “Privacy” | John Battelle’s Search Blog
Some useful tips, if you’re inclined to limit Google’s view of you/your activities
"If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold." —blue_beetle, Metafilter discussion.
Google started off the new year by announcing that they will be changing their privacy policies so that they can create more detailed profiles of their users. Starting March 1st, 2012, Google will combine information from user’s Gmail, Google Search history, YouTube, and other services. Prior to this change, Google profiled their users, but restricted the profile data use to the service from which the data was collected.
Because we have come to rely on web… Continue reading: Hide From Google – Wired How-To Wiki
Just saw this in Chrome (on Windows):
At least I was notified, via the Google+ Notifications Chrome extension, that I will now be notifying Google about more of my Chrome activities (and, in fairness, I could have clicked “Cancel,” in which case I assume I would have seen the warning every few days; I could also uninstall the extension, of course, but I assume Google already has most of the related data anyway…)
Continue reading: So Google+ notifies me…
Meanwhile, via Danny Sullivan (via Facebook…), “Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else”
Google announced a plan Tuesday to link user data across its email, video, social-networking and other services that it says will create a "beautifully simple and intuitive" user experience. But critics raised privacy concerns like those that helped kill the search giant’s Buzz social networking service.
The changes, which take effect March 1, will remove some of the legal hurdles Google Inc. faces in trying to link information across services from Gmail to YouTube to the Google Plus social network that replaced Buzz.
Business & Technology | Google to merge… Continue reading: Business & Technology | Google to merge user data across more services | Seattle Times Newspaper
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