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Google’s new privacy policy

Sherrilynne Starkie

Most Gmail users will have received at least one message from Google this week (I received ten) explaining the company’s new privacy policy. The company has more than 60 privacy policies tied to its various products and services and so, in March 2012, it will be streamlining this all down into one policy.

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Privacy Is About Control, Not Anonymity

Dave Fleet

Tweet Seth Godin says you don’t really care about privacy : “If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t have a credit card, because, after all, they know everything you spend money on. I don’t care if my credit card company, Amazon, Google or Facebook have my information. Tags: privacy.

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The Average Social Media Privacy Policy Takes an Hour to Read

The Realtime Report

The Average Social Media Privacy. Privacy Policies vs. Historical Texts and Literary Works. Whether you care to admit it or not, we’ve all hit the “I accept” button on a privacy policy without reading the fine print. Up until recently, it wasn’t that big of a deal to not read privacy policies. Written by.

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You star in this Google ad

Sherrilynne Starkie

You might be unwittingly embarking on one right now thanks to Google. Recently the search company announced a change to its terms of service that will see the name and photographs of some users in advertising. The change automatically affects Google+ users who are over 18 years of age, although users can opt out.

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Google Privacy Lawsuit Ends Not With A Bang But A Whimper

Forbes Social Media

Google has settled a privacy lawsuit that was originally expected to cost the company billions - and has got away with paying just $13 million.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

Socialized

My old boss, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said , in 2003, “You have no privacy. He was saying that our private information was already in the hands of credit card companies, health care providers, and so many other third parties, the notion that we control this information is flawed. Get over it.&#

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Could the Survival of Facebook Depend on Its Privacy?

Waxing UnLyrical

Lots of reasons for that, put forward by people much smarterthan I, which you can easily read about via a Google search. Clearly, the experiment of Facebook as a publicly traded company isn’t going well, though I think it is still too early to be called a failure. Google is much more like Apple, Facebook is more like Yahoo!).

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