Find out march 1st. Anyone with a google account is going to have all their info such as browsing history, contacts, email, comments, basically anything you have done online, will be centralized for your "convenience" So If you are not ok with google knowing everything you do online and putting it all together in one central location then....stop using their site

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Fuck this world.

Yeah this planet fucking sucks dick.

Do something about it.

That's what my entire life is based around.

Sites and products. Google has over 60 products/sites that are affected by this, basically everything they have a finger in.

Where can you get a list of those products/sites?

I wish I had a quick answer for ya. I've seen multiple news/investigative reports cite 60+, each one listing handfuls of the well knowns like youtube, but I've been unsuccessful in finding such a list in the new Privacy Policy, ToS, or listed sources.

Me either, and I guess it's pointless since I'm hopelessly addicted to my android phone anyway. I wondered what else was out there I wasn't thinking (gmail, android and youtube)

i dunno, i dont even wanna think about it. Android, cIQ, ugh. Glad I've been bouncing around overseas for a few years and become used to $25 expendable phones. That's one more thing I'd hate to be addicted to right now

How to tell Google is making a change that will impact user privacy in a very negative and -if publicized- very unpopular fashion- 1st FAQ question:

Should I take the time to read the new Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service?

Absolutely! Legal documents can make for dry reading, but these really matter. So whether you are new to Google or a long-time user, please take the time to get to know our practices.

Are you kidding? Who the fuck has the time to read let along understand these documents? If it was possible to get around the gatekeepers in media about this using social media, maybe citizens could split the task.

Of course, any effort to spread this on Reddit, FB, Digg etc where ppl would see this would "magically" be voted down or seen by only few ten thousand people.

Fuck Google.

Yep. Some straight bullshit. Deleted my plus account yesterday and will be getting rid of my android device asap. I kinda figured they would pull something like this, they were just waiting till they pretty much dominated their field and a major chunk of mobile phones as well. What better way to survey almost everyone's actions than by what they use most, their phones and the internet. Unless its old people lol

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Can they see what i post here if i do it from my android? Or is it only google and gmail? Sorry if thats a dumb question, i dont know how computers or the internet works...

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I just switched back to FireFox. You seem to have a lot of information so do you think you could help me and others for a second?

How can I go about deleting my gmail accounts, and can I get rid of the information google already has on them? What email service is safe that you would recommend? Also, how do I block those add things you were talking about?

I think to some these might be dumb questions, but I seriously dont know anything about certain computer things like this. I only know about gaming on computers and enough to help my friends and family with the basics, so not too much.

since youre using FF and adblockplus I would def recommend Noscript addon.

my friends always tell me about noscript and how i should use it. I actually need a new computer so when I get that this week Ill be updating all my security like that and switching everything around. Gonna make my computer as safe as possible.

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I have a question: why do you think Apple's datamining is any less intrusive than Google's? Also, bumbling told me you might know where I can DL a copy of Michael Collins Piper's The Final Judgment online for e-reader :P

"So did I... I love the eye grabbing headline yet it is something that makes sense, google services talk to each other... O NO let me grab my tin foil..."

one of the comments posted on your gizmodo link

edit: youtube privacy change

go to: www.google.com/dashboard

They list of the things they know about you...I guarantee you will be surprised.

I didn't see anything in there that I haven't told Google. There's a lot of stuff in there, but I use a lot of Google products.

I meant you will be surprised by the amount of information.

What's a good alternative to gmail and how do we switch our thousands of accounts/contacts to a new service?

There are none, and you can't.

switch our thousands of accounts/contacts to a new service

Sorry but I think you are missing part of the point. If you have that level of correlated data on any service you are going to be someone who can be more easily tracked. It's not as simple as that. Even if everyone went to Service XYZ tomorrow which offered some level of privacy you were comfortable with it would eventually be subject to monetization efforts and government tracking.

Okay so you should just roll over and take it then? Nice logic there.

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Thank you for your mature, well reasoned response.

Yeah, I know I sounded like a dick but you kinda did too. Your whole "Nice logic there" doesn't come across polite in text.

I'm sorry.

But think about what I wrote and then think about your response. People are worried about the growing power of Google along with them making changes to their privacy policy. A big part of it is consolidation and correlation of data.

Email addresses and contact information are ways to link conversations and individuals. When you then further extend that you get a fairly good portrait of what sites someone visits, their social profile, etc.

If you have a problem with this then you need to think more about how you protect your own data.

Moving your email to another service is not going to help that if you are looking for any service which isn't going to tie all your contact data and email to everything.

It's a privacy rich database and with the personal privacy wars starting to flame brightly right now corporations and the government is winning. Not private individuals. See ACTA, PIPA, SOPA and more.

If you want to keep your life private you need to think about different ways to do that.

Nice this under conspiracy. This should equal ACTA, SOPA in terms of notoriety in the tech subreddits.

But it's Google, increasing able to bend the fabric of reality like Fox and magically avoid negative speech about it's brand on any part of the net.

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I meant you will be surprised by the amount of information.