[LINK] [PRIVACY] Google to track users across its sites, whether they like it or not

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Roger Clarke wrote:
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> Agreed:  this applies only to user-accounts.
> 
> But that limitation is nominal only.
> 
> Tell me - how confident are you that your behaviour when not logged 
> in isn't correlated with your user-account?
> 

I assume it is correlated/analysed etc, and that the AFP campaign "What
goes online stays online" is long overdue:
<http://www.afp.gov.au/>
<http://www.news.com.au/business/worklife/job-seekers-warned-what-goes-online-stays-online/story-e6frfm9r-1225953241619>

> (Your behaviour is correlatable on the basis of at least 
> cookie-contents, IP-address(es) and browser-signature).
>

Tell me more about my browser signature.

> [Just to clarify, I don't mean 'your' in any aggressive sense, and 
> maybe I should use 'one's' instead.  I can't say 'our', because I 
> don't use a Google user-account.  I did create one at one stage, but 
> I don't use it, and I certainly won't be logging into it any more.]
> 
As you cannot claim to have never to have sent email to a gmail account -
you can say "our".

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
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