Filed in archive Protection by Elwyn Jenkins on June 18, 2007

Does Google know too much about you? This story never seems to go away as new service after new service appears on the net directly from Google or one of its hundreds of acquisitions.

The questions is raised again in Sydney Morning Herald's technology section under the article title, "Does Google know too much about you?".

We all have had our moments when friends, enemies and first-time daters have been "Googled" or "Google-stalked". If you have done anything on the net, like dropped a comment on a blogsite, to owning your own little patch of the Internet, with a blog, a website or even just comments in a discussion site, there will be some private information of your online. Google is so good at indexing the world of online activity that just about anyone can find the private information about you.

BUT this is not where the concern is. The concern is more to do with sampling what you are thinking about as you search online using words and phrases for information you are wanting, and more, when you click on an advertisement another little clue as to what interests you is let out into the Google memory bank.

AT THE present time I do not see that Google can do much damage; we all see Google as the "good guy". However, there is the worrying way Google has acquiesced in China to a government's demands.

Put it this way, I do not house on Google's territory any really personal information; Google Docs only contains my relatively public documents that are transmitted for all to see on a blogsite or website, my other documents are housed on my USB stick and edited using Abiword. A little caution is needed just like with anything else on the web, be careful to protect yourself against things turning sour.

Related Entries:

Google named worst privacy offender - 11 June 2007
Who Cares About Your Privacy? - 30 July 2007
Who Cares About Your Privacy? - 30 July 2007
Court Compels Privacy Violation - 14 August 2007

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Response from: Super Rat (07/30/09 8:18am)

I agree, download latest firefox (3.5.1 at time of writing)

Then go to add ons (just gooogle firefox add ons) and download:
NoScript (superb and you can block google analytics with it, as well as anything else)
Better Privacy (deletes all those super cookies and flash lso�s that doing a normal delete all and cleaning out ya temp files won�t get rid off, nor will even a dedicated program like cc cleaner etc as good as that is, so it�s essential in my own opinion)
Ad Block Plus (fantastic lil program)

And others that are good but in no means security related are:
Dictionary (your own language of choice of course)

Tab Mix Plus (for some reason, Mozillas addon page does not have compatitble version with the latest firefox :S wierd, but below is a link to the addonn authors page which goes to a dev link which is totally 100% compatible :)
http://tmp.garyr.net/tab_mix_plus-dev-build.xpi

Colourful tabs (pretty much self explanatory lol)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/1368/addon-1
368-latest.xpi?src=addondetail

Hope that helps, adios
Super Rat

PS: actually stop using google is another opinion (also entirely mine lol)
I myself now very happily use Bing http://www.bing.com

I find there page fresher and nicer to use, its easier to say lol, and most importantly results are easily on a par if not far better IMO, especially image search IMO (please note we do not need a load of google lovers telling me im wrong, i have gone to the trouble of explaining this in my OWWWWWN opinion, after years of using google and months of happily using Bing.

Be daring, use something different and see for yourself!
Doesn't have to be Bing that was an example, many others out there�

Also if you use firefox and you want an add on to add Bing as the default search engine in the in built search engine, please go to

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/10434/addon-
10434-latest.xml?src=addondetail

AND BING DOESN�T TRACK YOU LIKE GOOGLE DO � lol yet�
But the point is they don�t at present where as the evil google blatantly do!