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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11614970

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"On its official Google blog, senior vice president Alan Eustace wrote that the company was "mortified" to discover, after the initial investigation in May, that personal information had been collected."

What a load of bollocks as an I.T. professional I just can't see how they can collect this information by accident. First of all it was "we may have scanned peoples WiFi" and now it emerges that they collected some peoples emails, and visited URLs.

This really pisses me off. I know it wont make a bit of difference to Google but I will try my best to avoid Google products wherever I can. No more Gmail, no more Google search, no more youtube, no Android phones.

Was on Google maps today, looks like they have been going *everywhere* with their little trucks. My neighbour's house is down a little track in the middle of nowhere, there it is in all its detailed glory. Worth checking out the latest streetviews.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

If you haven't done this already, might be an idea to do it now?

already had mine turned off, not sure why.  are they changing the T&C's so they can sell details?

which search engine should we use instead?

Not so they can sell the details exactly, but so they can share the details (that were only used for personalising your own search results) with other departments within the Google group - some of whom aren't always as 'ethical'.  Yes, it could mean third-party organisations will also get access to this down the line.

pretty sure i haven't got a google account, should i set one up to do this?

:D

If you have gmail, use an android phone, or use adwords or analytics or any of Google's other services that need you to sign up - then you'll have an account.  Otherwise, you don't need to worry.

when I go to https://google.com/history, it just goes to google.com (normal search engine).

Is the info info in the link still valid?

looks like cos i had a youtube account i had a google account but web history was turned off. had an option to turn it on.

you have to fiddle around with it, try googling google history and then follow from there.

I'm more surprised ur surprised.... As a fellow IT dude I'd thought ud be aware of all the information gathering that goes on... If only you knew what the government monitor...

It says that my web page history is already empty. ???

My web history isn't turned on either, on any of my google accounts.

It's not a very sneaky way to sell on data if they shout quite loudly that they're doing it - and most people have to actively opt in by switching on their web history anyway.

yeah, that's pretty much my take on it. they're going to do stuff that I don't really care about with my data but only if I make the effort to go to a page that I didn't know existed and press a button turning on a thing

hardly sneaky and I'm not sure why it makes them scum

I might be wrong but isn't this what they're going to bring in on March 1st. Might just be the reason why it's not activated yet.

True they still get to score Evil Points (also known as iPoints) if we check after 1st March and they've switched people's web history on - my impression is they won't, but worth checking when we get there.

so if I turn it on I get ads for stuff that I want

I still don't get what the downside to it is

I think the point is they could pass it on to anyone

So whereas Google will send you ads that it looks like you're interested in - other companies might just send you ads for anything they get paid for.

but how is that different from me just getting random ads? I still don't know if I'm completely missing the point of if kin is the world's biggest drama queen

Just assume everything you do is watched/gathered/passed around.

You wont get shocked or dissapointed this way.

I just dont understand any of this google changing policy stuff.. should I be worried?

It's nothing they haven't been doing before. Others do it to a much bigger extent anyway.