Google…Really?

Interesting to see Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt crying about possible NSA snooping. Mr. Schmidt opines as follows: “It’s really outrageous that the NSA was looking between the Google data centers, if that’s true,” Schmidt said in an interview. “The steps that the organization was willing to do without good judgment to pursue its mission and potentially violate people’s privacy, it’s not OK.” Given Google’s disregard for its users privacy when it suites their profit goals makes it...

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Facebook Fans Read This

From the Huffington Post 7 Ways to Avoid Identity Theft Before Facebook Gets Hacked Adam Levin, Posted: 2/7/13 7:35 AM Updated: 2/7/13 9:07 AM We’re coming up on three years since Mark Zuckerberg famously announced, “The age of privacy is over.” Some of us, however, still value our privacy. The nonstop Facebook information grabs of late, coupled with recent high-profile security breaches, point to the inevitable: a catastrophic breach at Facebook. When that happens, the most concentrated dossier about you, including all your...

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Good Google???

If you value your  privacy, well maybe Google Chrome is the Internet Browser for you. The oglers at Google have decided to let you “opt out” of  click tracking (my term). What is click tracking you say. Click tracking is Big Daddy ( Google may not be your daddy but they are big) collecting data about your Internet browsing habits. Did you ever wonder how the greater Internet, somehow, KNEW what you were up to. Did this ever happen to you? Just researched kitchen sink pricing on the internet and found a great sink from, say Kohler....

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Bad Google

Listen up iPhone, iPad, Mac etc…. users. Google is watching you. Those clever folks at Google have figured out how to get around your privacy settings in Safari. Even though you may have chosen to keep your browsing activity private, the oglers at Google don’t care, they want to watch anyway. And they are. Apple is busy closing up this little hole in their privacy scheme. Wish them luck and let Google know this is not cool.

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