Comments on: Does Google sell its users’ personal data?

By: Denver DUI Lawyer

Denver DUI Lawyer — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:40:38 +0000

We definitely pay for convenience in the form of losing our privacy. It is a scary thought but how many people are actually willing to give up the ease and features of their personalized google accounts? I’m not even sure I am, so in the meantime you will have to look hard to find my name, birth date or address online.

By: andrew b

andrew b — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:56:42 +0000

OMGCAKE THATS SCAREE

i am going to switch to a different email provider but that wont do anything because they ALREADY SOLD IT!

By: Corinne McKay

Corinne McKay — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:55:39 +0000

I think that the main thing to remember with Google is that they are still a for-profit company. They may be cooler or hipper or more ethical than many other companies, but they’re still in in for the money. For example with Google Translation Center, it’s a neat idea but I think the ultimate goal (or maybe this is just my conspiracy theory?) is to build an enormous base of translations that can be used to improve Google’s statistical machine translation programs.

I find that once you get into the nitty-gritty of privacy policies, especially from social networking sites (i.e. LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) that make most of their money through advertising, they are all pretty invasive. LinkedIn just altered their privacy policy to specify that they can use information that you provide during registration in order to target ads to you. I just chalk it up to life in the 21st century (and occasionally contemplate moving to a Tuff Shed in the mountains) but I agree that it’s worth thinking about.