machang has anyone thought of google ? for some of us web is nothing if thrs no google !!! but in the web there are many articles and news's on privacy I am not saying that we should stop using google or boycott google blah blah blah.
BUT
IS it correct collecting individuals data ?
BUT
IS it correct collecting individuals data ?
Google Inc. said an internal investigation has discovered that the roving vans the company uses to create its online mapping services were mistakenly collecting data about websites people were visiting over wireless networks.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010...akenly-collected-data-websites-people-viewed/
How do they Spy on You?: They store a tracking cookie which can track all your search history and surprisingly they expire on the year 2038 !! However the cookie won’t directly hurt you, but on the course of time it may leak your personal identify to some attacker or some abusive Govt authority.
How to defeat search logging: To protect your self for Google’s side effects you need to surf anonymously, but that would considerably increase the page load time making it impossible to search the web. So I suggest you to use anyone of these
http://tech-buzz.net/2006/08/13/is-google-spying-on-you/
- Use GoogleAnon
- Use FoxyProxy Extension for Firefox
The Methods Google Uses to Get Data
Web Beacons
Javascript -
Server Requests Stored in Log Files
Forms
Click Tracking
Cookies
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection
To its credit, Google is making some of its enormous cache of data available to you as well via various services.
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- Google Trends
- Google Trends for Websites
- Google Insights for Search
- Google Ad Planner
- Various search tools like the Wonder Wheel.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/08/how-google-collects-data-about-you-and-the-internet/


