Google's new privacy law, and how to protect yourself. Do it before March 1. [View all]
My understanding of the new google privacy laws are quite elementary. If you're more familiar with it, please correct me if I've misunderstood it. And please start your own threads to raise awareness about it.
Starting March 1, all google services that you access with your google account will start sharing information about you in order to target their advertising to your interests. That includes searches in the google search engine, you-tube, and gmail.
If you have a google account, you may be surprised to see that google has a history of everything you've been searching since you opened that account. They will use that information -- your personal information -- for their targeted advertising.
What you do with google services is your business, it's none of their business. If you don't want Google to use the information in your web search history, you can erase your current history and block their collection of future web history.
This website has simple instructions on how to do it:
http://www.webpronews.com/dont-let-googles-privacy-policy-out-you-clear-your-web-history-before-march-1st-2012-02
If you have more than one google account, do this for each of your accounts.
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