{"id":222,"date":"2012-01-25T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-01-25T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:18:58","slug":"google-is-the-big-brother-you-invited-inside-and-refuses-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/google-is-the-big-brother-you-invited-inside-and-refuses-to-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is the Big Brother You Invited  and Now Refuses to Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/picture-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-226\" title=\"picture-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/picture-3-300x184.png\" alt=\"picture-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/picture-3-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/picture-3.png 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Google just announced<\/a> it&#8217;s revamping of it&#8217;s Privacy Policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"articleBody\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/policies\/\">Our new Privacy Policy<\/a> makes clear that, if you&#8217;re signed in, we may combine information  you&#8217;ve provided from one service with information from other services,&#8221;  Google privacy director for products and engineering Alma Whitten\u00c2\u00a0  explained. &#8220;In short, we&#8217;ll treat you as a single user across  all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google  experience. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google is combining 60 or so separate privacy policies into one global policy. It now offers ONE product as opposed to many disparate services. What this means for users is sharing of ALL google data and information across the board: and , NO, users cannot opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthal.senate.gov\/blog\/googles-new-privacy-policies\"> troubled by the lack of an opt-out mechanism<\/a>. &#8220;The lack of opt-out means users cannot pick and  choose which data they want integrated into their Google profiles,&#8221; he  wrote. &#8220;Private email messages might contain any number of personal,  embarrassing, or otherwise damaging information, and Google&#8217;s attempts  to amplify and contextualize this information through targeted ads, Maps  suggestions, or Calendar reminders could have negative consequences for  users.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally,Information week writes that t<span id=\"articleBody\">he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/byte\/commentary\/232500429\">inclusion of Android smartphone data<\/a> is most significant change in terms of user expectations. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just announced it&#8217;s revamping of it&#8217;s Privacy Policy: Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you&#8217;re signed in, we may combine information you&#8217;ve provided from one service with information from other services,&#8221; Google privacy director for products and engineering Alma Whitten\u00c2\u00a0 explained. &#8220;In short, we&#8217;ll treat you as a single user across all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[99,269,98,270,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cassandraking.net\/wordpressapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}