By allowing Google to track my web browsing, Google becomes a more effective knowledge management platform.
Privacy International lodged a complaint with a number of privacy regulators around the world about targeted advertising in Gmail.
Official Google Blog: Google search privacy: Plain and simple
Search queries saved in logs: Misspelled search terms, prompts for “did you mean”.
IP address: Search results returned to the correct computer. Can tell which provider and general location.
Cookies: Small file stored on computer. Reminds of preferences from last time. Search results per pages and language preference
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De Landa proposes the concept of the Panspectron (p. 206). Whilst referring to Bentham’s Panopticon, which is he points out, a powerful tool for political and societal control through the perception of continuous surveillance, he suggest the Panspectron gathers all the available information about all subjects all of the time. Through a systems of filters [...]
A quick post to a piece on the Google Public Policy blog from Peter Fleischer about Google and the EU policy on data retention. Will probably be worth coming back to this one.
Google Public Policy Blog: Data retention: the right balance between privacy and security:
“Citizens should have a right to privacy online. And governments have [...]
Are individual privacy rights at greater risk as a result of Google’s privacy practices?
I found this on Peter Fleischer’s blog. It’s Eric Scmidt, CEO of Google, urging the nations of the world to adopt new privacy regulations. Although it sounds good in theory, the cynic in me believes that it’s a diversionary tactic to take attention away from the Google/DoubleClick deal. The comment by Anne Cavoukian tends to [...]
