[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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