Google will now follow you around the internet, as you use e-mail, search, YoutTube, and so on and so forth, as you use web browsers or your Android phone, and you can’t opt out. This starts March 1st.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure if this is a bad thing or not. It depends on exactly what they are doing. It will certainly make the Google experience a bit creepier: As you search for YouTube videos on some topic, Google may make suggestions based on information on your Google Calendar, or if you have a business trip to a certain city on your Calendar, Google may suggest which of your circled contacts on Google+ might like to know you’ll be in town.<\/p>\n
From the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n Privacy advocates say Google’s changes betray users who are not accustomed to having their information shared across different Web sites.<\/p>\n A user of Gmail, for instance, may send messages about a private meeting with a colleague and may not want the location of that meeting to be thrown into Google’s massive cauldron of data or used for Google’s maps application<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Click through to the Washington Post piece if you want to participate in a poll regarding your reaction to this. So far 53% of respond ants plant to cancel their Google accounts because of this policy, 22% will not cancel, and 26% are not sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Google will now follow you around the internet, as you use e-mail, search, YoutTube, and so on and so forth, as you use web browsers or your Android phone, and you can’t opt out. This starts March 1st. I’m not sure if this is a bad thing or not. It depends on exactly what they … Continue reading Time to opt out of Google?<\/span>