Does google collect too much personal information?

"Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off.


Earlier this year, however, Google bowed to concerns from privacy activists in the US and Europe, by agreeing to limit the amount of time it keeps information about the internet searches made by its users to two years."





If you still want to use Google and don't want them to have info, you can use "Scroogle". For the link to add it to Firefox go here---%26gt; http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?...


Choose Scroogle Scaper.


For IE ( I don't know why anyone still uses it) go here and follow the directions----%26gt; http://www.scroogle.org/

Does google collect too much personal information?
Yes like:


How To Opt Out Of Yahoo's New 'Web Beacon'


http://www.rense.com/general76/opt.htm





If you belong to ANY Yahoo Group - be aware that Yahoo is now using "Web Beacons" to track the Internet navigation of every Yahoo user. It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website And every group you visit -ANYWHERE- on the Internet, even when you're Not connected to Yahoo.





To stop this privacy invasive surveillance, go to Yahoo's updated privacy statement at:





http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/d...





About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will See a link that says WEB BEACONS.





looks like this...


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Cookies





* Yahoo! may set and access Yahoo! cookies on your computer.


* Yahoo! lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer.


Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Yahoo!'s cookies.


* Yahoo! uses web beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services.


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Click on the phrase "Web Beacons." On the page that opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."





In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out" link that Will let you "opt-out" of their snooping.





looks like this...


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Outside the Yahoo! Network





* Yahoo! uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites and also for auditing purposes.


* Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report anonymous individual and/or aggregate information about Yahoo! users to our partners.


Aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.


* When conducting research Yahoo!'s practice is to require our partners to disclose the presence of these web beacons on their pages in their privacy policies and state what choices are available to users regarding the collection and use of this information. You may choose to opt-out of Yahoo! using this information for this research.





Please click here to opt-out.


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NOTE: Be careful to not opt back in by clicking the wrong button!!
Reply:NO
Reply:don't they all?
Reply:all spyware is similar
Reply:No doubt. I followed some links to what was said to be waste of time links. Some were pretty good, but the quizzes and poles all required me to log in, give my email address, etc. I have put Google right up there with terrorists, CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS and NBC. Google has become to big for their own britches.
Reply:Yes