Originally Posted By: Nick R
Originally Posted By: Pop_Rivit
Thank goodness I'm not tracked by Google. That raises some serious privacy concerns-it is none of Google's business where I go and what I do.
I'm not sure why anyone would stand for that level of personal information being collected and stored by any company. It's a sad commentary on the understanding of personal privacy when people actually think it's a good idea.
Because it doesn't really matter? What are they going to do with it? It's mainly to make better suggestions, improve search results, that type of thing. It's not like Google employees are sitting there reading your personal info and giggling to themselves. They collect data on millions of people, they don't really care about you.
I personally have nothing to hide, and the convenience of having all my browser, email, etc synced across all my devices outweighs what I frankly consider be a minor at worst risk to my privacy. I mean Google probably knows more about me than I myself do.
And I'm ok with that because really, it's of minor consequence. Doesn't affect my daily life. If anything, it improves it.
Well said! In addition to that, your Privacy with Google is from within their privacy policy. They will not sell or distribute any of your personal information to which they hold.
There was a similar thread a while back that sort of covered the same topic of privacy on the web and how you can shut down any sort of tracking and privacy, blah blah blah. Fact of the matter is, you cannot. Regardless of what settings you have disabled, you are still being tracked or your search interests logged, etc.. It is extremely hard to hide completely these days, BUT no company or government will ever tell you that.
You learn to live with it and accept it as most individuals already have. Once you hold a piece of web enabled technology in your hands, you are basically signing a privacy waiver.