[LINK] How to Divorce Google

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Mar 21 11:38:15 AEDT 2012


>Kim Holburn wrote:
>>  https://www.pcworld.com/article/252104/how_to_divorce_google.html

At 16:49 -0700 20/3/12, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>I've divorced google.

This is fairly effective, in that it presents barriers against the 
gathering of new data about your net-behaviour - subject to the 
provisos noted in the article, including being persistent in 
sustaining the precautions.

However, the author missed a few significant aspects.  Examples:

(1)  all data currently held by Google is retained by Google, and the
      organisation can do almost anything it likes with that data

(2)  every email-correspondent who, visibly or otherwise, uses Gmail
      gifts your correspondence, and some of your social network, to
      Google's data-mound;  and that will continue, despite all these
      precautions

(3)  everyone who makes their address-book available to Google+,
      whether knowingly or otherwise, provides everything in it to
      the company, including the fact of association with the
      address-book owner


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