Beginning Thursday, Google will implement a new privacy policy.
Google is creating a database that will house all Google account users’ information. The database will allow Google to compile comprehensive profiles of its users, which will then be used to sell ads that are more tailored to the individual.
The only people affected are those with Gmail, Google+, Picassa and other accounts that require a sign-in.
Google promises that it will not sell this information. In addition, it will not collect any additional data than it already does.
To see Google’s new privacy policy, visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/preview/
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As the Federal Trade Commission has learned, time and again, to its embarrassment, things “promised” by Google are not necessarily things “delivered” — particularly where privacy is concerned. A careful parsing of the words in Google’s statement on this issue makes it clear to a logical reader (with business-legal experience) that they’re only promising they aren’t abusing the information AT THE MOMENT — leaving wide open the opportunity to abuse and market this gathered information anytime in the FUTURE, indiscriminately.
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Google’s conduct (or misconduct) in the international sphere makes it clear that Google does not feel bound by any privacy standards, except those in the specific country in which it is doing business at the moment — whether that’s the U.S. or France, or China, or the Cayman Islands.
And with internet traffic skipplng wildly back and forth across international boundaries — essentially unregulated — Google can simply collect the communications of U.S. citizens as it gets redirected offshore, then capture and exploit it, outside the jurisdiction of U.S. law.
Google intends to gather information on you — and me, and everyone — INCLUDING the addressing and contents of any e-mails through Gmail (gmail.com), according to their own statements, and exploit it commercially. At PRESENT, they say, they’ll only use the info themselves. That leaves the FUTURE wide open, doesn’t it??
Want to keep your privacy? Stay away from Google, and ANY of its subsidiaries and affiliates — like YouTube, Picassa, GoogleMaps, GoogleAdWords, DoublieClick.com ads, Disqus “private” blog-posting service, etc. It’s all now subject to aggregation and permanent storage (no longer too expensive) by Google.
Forget U.S. and European “privacy protections” — Google can simply shift the data offshore, and out of the control of civilized, responsible nations.
From that point on, power and money will decide who sees your personal and business information — not your, nor your country’s law.
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