Google's new privacy policy?

Google seems to be content to 'push the envelope' with everything.

Take for instance the fiasco of some months ago where the roaming Street View vans collected data being exchanged within open WiFi.

Of course, Google promptly dismissed this as a 'software error', and claimed they never meant to 'spy', but, looking closer at the omnivorous nature of Google we see that they now log the location of WiFi broadcast SSID's, and incorporate those into various maps that are available to the Internet. WiFi admins must now re-name their SSID to include the suffix "_nomap" if they don't want to be logged by Google.

To prevent Google from geo-mapping your network, do this: "...opt out of having your wireless access point included in the Google Location Server. To opt out, visit your access point’s settings and change the wireless network name (or SSID) so that it ends with “_nomap.” For example, if your SSID is “Network,” you‘d need to change it to “Network_nomap.”

More?

Google unveils 'Find My Face' tool for Google+ https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9222550/Go...

System Links Your Face to Your Social Security Number and Other Private Things

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/2370...

Google has introduced a growing menu of cloud-based software from email to spreadsheets. Last week, the company unveiled Google Voice, which transcribes telephone voice mails and routes the messages to a person's email inbox.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090318/tc_nm/us_go...

Be careful of where you set your "default location" when using Google Maps.

Some folks may like to have a satellite shot of their home as default...kinda neat.

Now there's a central location that has: your voice print; your face; who your friends are; perhaps the house you live in; what you search on the 'Net...well you get the drift.

By itself, these may not amount to much, but in the aggregate they can be used for evil: it just depends on who has control of the database, and as we all know (or should), knowledge is power and the 'creep' of identity loss leads to influence, and eventually control. It has never been the opposite.

Unfortunetly people seem to be confused about the new privacy changes.

Google is not collecting any more information they have already been. Infact all tracking methods used have been used for years now. News Media construes whats actually happening, because they have no better things to report.

Basically whats being changed is how they consolidate the data. Before they used to track information specific to the application. What ever you did in youtube, was isolated to youtube, those in gmail was limited to gmail etc. Now the data is all consolidated to one place. Keep in mind all the information was always associated with one account, but the information was not cross referencable.

Hence the tracking is still the same as always, just now the information can be cross referenced from all of google applications.

Keep in mind Google does not track if your not logged in. It stores only as a temporary cookie. Google also supports the "Do Not Track" option available in Google Chrome.

All websites you visit have ads, those ads will drop advertising cookies and other advertising agencies use those cookies to monitor with you do, without you even knowing. With no option of opting out. Infact with Super Cookies [Flash Cookies] Even if you disable cookies, or delete cookies they will remain.

People are blowing things out of proportion, if you do not want to be tracked. Don't have a google account and don't use google services.

Just keep in mind your still going to be tracked by other advertising agencies, google is just being attacked because of political reasons. Only, everyone uses the same methodology of google to track.

TWITTER facebook GOOGLE Is there quite any privateness with those internet sites as one tell all to all, like reading Days of Our lives, because the international Turns, all rolled into one Drama Queen experience.