It Shouldn’t Take a Letter from Congress for Google to Give Straight Answers About Privacy Policy Changes
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Last week, Google announced a new, simplified privacy policy. They did a great job of informing users that the privacy policy had been changed through emails and notifications, and…
Call me crazy, but I don’t see the problem with this. You’re using a google product (which, by the way, you can still turn off google saving your search data) and it’s using that to make the other products better. Yes, it uses that information to also serve you more relevant ads, but so what.
I just really don’t get the big fuss over this. Google is using informationyou are putting into it’s product to give you better information across it’s entire range of products. If you don’t want google to know what you’re searching, don’t use google.
This is just really, really confusing to me.
I second what Keith said… Also, Facebook already does this across any website you use, ever… and people aren’t writing Tumblr blogs about THAT.
I don’t use and have never liked facebook, nor did I disagree with Keith’s observation of being welcome to not use something if I don’t like the way it works.
If I was using Facebook and they made a policy update that I disagreed with and wanted my followers to know about, I would make a tumblr blog about it.
See, I don’t expect people to agree with everything (or most, or hell, even half of the things) I post here— that’d be rather silly, wouldn’t it? But I’m not going to tell people what they can and can’t blog about, even if I do disagree with their opinions or viewpoints.
Google changing its policy this way in and of itself does not bother me— all the changes and bills and proposed laws about privacy and censorship and what can and cannot be done on the internet all happening at once lately make me more than a little uneasy. I don’t claim to be an insider, or know much about how Google or anyone else runs their ships; I’m just pointing out things that concern me.
You know, on my own tumblr, where the people who read me might care to know what I’m thinking.
I’m not big on social networking sites and all that sort of thing beyond my own little art circles— I’m here on the internet to make things, share them with people, and then shuffle back into my cave at the end of the day. My opinions on them—which I’m not going to get into right now, or possibly ever— probably don’t mesh up with the majority of those people who utilize and like them, and I’m very aware of and okay with that.
I like having as much control as possible on the information I am putting out there and how it’s being used, and I try to avoid or exercise caution around sites that don’t allow me that when I can.I know a lot of other people who feel the same way.
“You” in my post was a general “you,” not referring to the OP. I was reacting to the reaction Keith was blogging about.
Seriously, the OP thought I was attacking their right to blog what they want?…
