Comments on: Privacy Concerns With Google http://www.vanseodesign.com/google/privacy-concerns-with-google/ Helping you build search engine friendly websites Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:29:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steven Bradley http://www.vanseodesign.com/google/privacy-concerns-with-google/comment-page-1/#comment-685 Steven Bradley Thu, 03 May 2007 03:38:53 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/privacy-concerns-with-google/#comment-685 That is interesting. I wouldn't have thought you could track people's movements like that, but you are talking about the former Soviet Union. I agree with you about choosing Google to hold the data over the NSA. I wish no one would hold onto that data, but I think we're past the point where that's a possibility. And Google has at least publicly showed it is interested in our privacy. They did fight the government and have at least taken initial steps to anonymize the data they collect. I'd like to see them go further than they are, but they are doing more than all the other companies out there. And it's hard to blame them for wanting to collect that data. There's a lot of money to made from all the information. That is interesting. I wouldn’t have thought you could track people’s movements like that, but you are talking about the former Soviet Union.

I agree with you about choosing Google to hold the data over the NSA. I wish no one would hold onto that data, but I think we’re past the point where that’s a possibility. And Google has at least publicly showed it is interested in our privacy. They did fight the government and have at least taken initial steps to anonymize the data they collect.

I’d like to see them go further than they are, but they are doing more than all the other companies out there. And it’s hard to blame them for wanting to collect that data. There’s a lot of money to made from all the information.

]]> By: Forrest http://www.vanseodesign.com/google/privacy-concerns-with-google/comment-page-1/#comment-684 Forrest Wed, 02 May 2007 07:01:23 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/privacy-concerns-with-google/#comment-684 I read something really interesting a while ago about bird flu, and how we're looking over a lot of ancient Russian data from the 1970s and '80s. They can actually tell us a great deal about how diseases spread, because the Soviets carefully tracked and recorded their citizens movements in a way that would be impossible in the free world at the time. The info Google has is a dictator's dream, but Google doesn't seem interested in policy. And frankly I'm a little more comfortable with them amassing this type of information than with the NSA doing the same and more. At least with Google I understand what they want the data for, and have some idea to what extent they're collecting it. I read something really interesting a while ago about bird flu, and how we’re looking over a lot of ancient Russian data from the 1970s and ’80s. They can actually tell us a great deal about how diseases spread, because the Soviets carefully tracked and recorded their citizens movements in a way that would be impossible in the free world at the time.

The info Google has is a dictator’s dream, but Google doesn’t seem interested in policy. And frankly I’m a little more comfortable with them amassing this type of information than with the NSA doing the same and more. At least with Google I understand what they want the data for, and have some idea to what extent they’re collecting it.

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