Google has all your browing history and will be using 03/01/2012

[BuffaloBob]

This really ticks me off. This means anyone who Googled on your computer is in the history. Including maybe a goofy friend "investigating" porn or who knows what. IT is shown in the history as belong to You. You have until March 1st to erase all Google history from your computers. And all your accounts. I just erased mine and it's pretty easy.
Privacy doesn't mean much anymore. Only advertising $$$. Use your best judgement and pass it along if needed.
BB
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February 21, 2012 | By Eva Galperin
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/...story-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here's how you can do that:

1. Sign into your Google account.


2. Go to https://www.google.com/history

3. Click "remove all Web History."

4. Click "ok."

Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. Web History will remain off until you enable it again.

If you have several Google accounts, you will need to do this for each of them.

 

[Jason in Enid]

What about everyone else who doesn't have a Goolge account?

It's no different than mail order companies selling your info which has been going on for decades.

 

[gleaner1]

This is not a threat. There is safety in numbers.

 

[BosnMate]

I was wondering if they could be shut off. Thanks.

 

[spartacus53]

Why would you worry about that unless you have something to hide.

If your smart like me, I use someones office computer for any illegal activities, trace that

 

[homefires]

Why would you worry about that unless you have something to hide.

If your smart like me, I use someones office computer for any illegal activities, trace that

You remind me of the last cop that wanted to search my truck and I told him HELL NO>

He said if you have nothing to hide you would let me.

I said , I have nothing to hide and You don't need to look.

 

[BuffaloBob]

Why would you worry about that unless you have something to hide. dontknow

That isn't the point. Say you searched for:

A person, place or thing. Vacation planning. You have revealed where you like to travel. With how many people. What car you rent and how pricey is your hotel.
Health issues. You search for medical advice for a disease or illness. It will be assumed that you are the sick person.
Money issues. What banks you use, credit cards, and investing info you sought.
Retirement issues. Stocks you have tracked, money amounts you pretended to invest.
Privacy issues. Your car, Google maps of everywhere you searched. Google aerial photos of maybe your home. etc etc.

Assume that everything you used in a Google search will be combined under your name. Buying habits, money, health, friends, associations, interests, clubs, forums, where you live, your lifestyle. Own a gun, searching for self defense courses, concealed permit courses, gun dealers and prices, gun models, home protection, alarm services, lawyers, lawsuit advice........

You will be allowing Google to have more info on yourself than the FBI. (If they were interested at all)

School kids searching for drug info. Addiction counseling whatever for a school paper. This shows up as you.
Private record searches.
DUI lawyers.
Divorce advice.
Genealogical searches. Your personal family history and ancestors.
And every other search since you started Googling from day one. It is the greatest invasion of you privacy ever. Ask yourself Why Do They Want That?
BB

 

[spartacus53]

You said all of that to say what

Let them knock themselves out on my computer, I'll guarantee that within a few hours they'll go

 

[BuffaloBob]

You said all of that to say what

Let them knock themselves out on my computer, I'll guarantee that within a few hours they'll go

Maybe I am more paranoid than some people.
BB

 

[Twisted One]

Sadly it is just paranoia, as a computer person, I can tell you, anyone that has ever touched your computer, has access to a lot more information than you know.
And by anyone that has touched your computer I don't mean physically. There are ways to access a persons computer from anywhere, and even easier if you have wifi.

Honestly if this sort of thing is an issue for you, you would have to move to a town where there is no internet, cell phones, etc...

Which reminds me, did you know that the majority of cell phones are unprotected and easily hacked. A person sitting across a restaurant from you can copy the information from your cell phone, which also contains a browser history, as well other information you have there.

Not to increase your fear, or to tell you it's nothing to worry about, but access to information is everywhere, and a basic computer security class at your local community college can fill people in on more than they would ever wish to know.

 

[spartacus53]

BB I dedicate this great Kinks song to you.

Like I said early, let someone knock themselves out looking at my computer

 

[Frankn]

Well lets get real about this. NSA has been doing this from day1. The last time I was there, years ago, they had 10 ACRES of computer memory underground. They not only have the internet, but cell phones and land lines, even the sat lines, so Google is a Johny come lately! And get this, manufacters can even sell codeing untill NAS gets the keys. frank

 

[BuffaloBob]

Well lets get real about this. NSA has been doing this from day1. The last time I was there, years ago, they had 10 ACRES of computer memory underground. They not only have the internet, but cell phones and land lines, even the sat lines, so Google is a Johny come lately! And get this, manufacters can even sell codeing untill NAS gets the keys. frank

Well thanks a lot Frank. I KNEW I was paranoid for a reason.
BB

 

[47thelement]

Well lets get real about this. NSA has been doing this from day1. The last time I was there, years ago, they had 10 ACRES of computer memory underground. They not only have the internet, but cell phones and land lines, even the sat lines, so Google is a Johny come lately! And get this, manufacters can even sell codeing untill NAS gets the keys. frank

Funny I always thought NSA stood for No Such Agency.

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

After you go through all that crap to stop them from following you - check it - because I did it 5 times before it actually "took". (5 times and 2 days, after I had turned my computer off for the night, the following day I checked, and it was all right back).


Beth