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♛ lobelia (lobelia) wrote in rp_tutorials,
@ 2012-03-01 10:53:00

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Google privacy policy changes
So, I saw this going around Tumblr and even though it isn't 100% roleplaying related, a good number of people here have Google accounts and this is pretty terrifying. (Mine had logged search results from as far back as 2008.)

In a few hours, new policies will take effect at Google, endangering your privacy.

Tech publication Gizmodo reports, “things you could do in relative anonymity today [like your web searches], will be explicitly associated with your name, your face, your phone number come March 1st.” And this applies retro-actively if you don’t act today.

You can protect yourself in just 1 minute! Click here for a step-by-step guide to protecting your privacy from Google’s changes (link opens in new window/tab).

(PS. Fin, I have no idea how to tag this, but I hope !psa-ing it is all right.)

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droa
2012-03-01 10:32 am UTC (link)

While I know that using Google is a reflex for the majority of us, I would also suggest the idea of learning to migrate away from it if privacy is a big thing for you. DuckDuckGo, for example, is an up-and-coming search engine which has made A Big Deal about never tracking user searches (they don't retain query data), whereas Google is not just consolidating all data and applying it across the board, but will continually be revising their policies in the future.

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	forsythia 2012-03-02 03:01 am UTC (link)
	This is one of those cases where my paranoia has come in handy. I've always gone through the trouble of disabling web history on my GMail accounts, so when I went through to do this it just brought me to a page asking if I wanted to enable Web History. (Just to be safe, I clicked no.) Thanks for sharing this, though. <3 (Reply to this)